Just a little service I've created to notify when the ram usage is close to it's limits.
To run it just download the files, edit the path in the service file, and then run the following commands:
systemctl --user link /path/to/ram-monitor.service
systemctl --user enable --now ram-monitor.service
| #!/bin/bash | |
| # Will notify when ram usage percentage is greater then THREASHOLD_PERCENTAGE | |
| THREASHOLD_PERCENTAGE=95 | |
| # Interval between checking ram usage, in seconds | |
| INTERVAL_SECS=5 | |
| # gets ram usage as used/total | |
| function getRamUsagePercent(){ | |
| free -m | awk '{if ($1 ~ /Mem/) {print int($3/$2*100)}}' | |
| } | |
| while true; do | |
| usage=$(getRamUsagePercent) | |
| if [[ $usage -gt $THREASHOLD_PERCENTAGE ]]; then | |
| remaining=$((100 - usage)) | |
| notify-send "Low RAM!" "Only ${remaining}% left!" | |
| fi | |
| sleep $INTERVAL_SECS | |
| done |
| [Unit] | |
| Description=Notify when RAM is to low | |
| [Service] | |
| Type=simple | |
| # Change this to the location of notify-low-ram.sh | |
| ExecStart=/home/myusername/notify-low-ram.sh | |
| TimeoutStartSec=0 | |
| [Install] | |
| WantedBy=default.target |