Dev builds bash script to email Sam Altman daily about his 'RAM idle 95%' claim
IainKay · reddit · 2026-11-07
Responding to Sam Altman's claim that PC DRAM is 'used maybe 5% of the time', Redditor IainKay built ram-altman: a bash script that reads /proc/meminfo, samples usage via cron, and emails Altman daily if more than 10% of RAM sits free.
- Joke project with no recipient set by default; --dry-run just prints the message
- On an inference box loaded with model weights, the script would theoretically never fire — the point against Altman's claim
- Author asks others to test on their LLM rigs and report spare RAM
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