A Sam Altman parody offers an amusing lesson in memory management

A developer created a satirical script called 'Ram-Altman' that emails OpenAI CEO Sam Altman once a day if more than 10% of the system RAM is reported as available. The script was inspired by Altman's comments on the Cheeky Pint podcast, where he said that having a global allocation of DRAM in personal computers is 'terrible' due to limited supply. The script uses the MemTotal and MemAvailable figures from the Linux /proc/meminfo file, which provides a more accurate picture of available RAM by including page cache and reclaimable slab memory. Users can schedule the script to check the kernel's estimate of available memory every 5 minutes.