Hi, This is something have found useful in other window managers, and further to the comments in the i3status man page:
> It is hard to measure memory in a way which is accurate or meaningful I find MemAvailable from /proc/meminfo most useful, assuming I understand it correctly. MemTotal-MemAvailable would be even better. > One reason for that is that I have not run out of memory in the last few years Unfortunately I do reasonably often. Either because other users are running programs on the machine, or particular processes are memory intensive (eg. virtual machines, CAE applications) > Memory has become so cheap that even in my 4 year old notebook, I have 8 GiB > of RAM. I have 12GiB but it is not cost effective to replace this before replacing the machine. Some programs/data sets have their memory requirements increased as hardware specs improve. > Another reason is that your operating system will do the right thing anyway It tends to thrash the swap space because all the running processes can't fit into physical RAM. Sometimes the situation is so bad I have to reboot the machine. 'limit vmemoryuse' can help in some situations but not all. A quick way of checking memory usage would help. > you are probably better off with a script doing that, which pops up an alert > when your RAM usage reaches a certain threshold Maybe, but it would be nice if the option was built in anyway. I don't suppose there is any way to add it as a user configuration? thanks, Rob
