The recommended way is to wrap i3status as described in its manpage. On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Ciprian Dorin Craciun <ciprian.crac...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've just looked in the `i3status` manual to see how to display the > free memory (as reported by `free`), and found no option. > > I understand from the manual that computing the used memory is not > easy, but displaying the total used or free memory (both RAM and swap) > as reported by `free` is quite easy and useful. > > > My particular usecase is this: I use quite a few of `tmpfs` instances > mounted for various development purposes, which consume quite a lot of > memory (in terms of GiB) and which spill over to swap (sometimes > leaving me without any memory RAM or swap), and I would like to easily > find out when I'm close to "out-of-memory". > > Looking through the i3 mailing list archive I found other usecases of > such a feature: > * `[i3] memory information in i3status` from 1st of April 2015, which > talks about many processes chewing RAM; > * `[i3] memory display` from 15th November 2014, which talks about > image processing applications; > > > There even seems to be a rejected patch implementing this in `[i3] > [RFC] [PATCH] i3status: memory-stats` from 23th February 2012, or > `[i3] [PATCH] i3status: implements a memory-usage-print` from the same > day. > > > Thus although the average desktop user never runs out of memory > (either he has enough these days or uses swap), there are people -- > especially developers or those using memory intensive applications > like scientific or image processing -- that easily overrun both their > RAM an swap. For example I have on my laptop 8 GiB RAM and a 32 GiB > swap, and I'm constantly running out of available memory due to the > mentioned `tmpfs` instances. > > Thanks, > Ciprian.
-- Best regards, Michael
