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In line with the idea of reducing how much it's written on SSD, some people suggest using tmpfs for lots of things, one of them can be the ~/.cache directory. Which must be implemented in a per-user basis or with some pre-mount script that would do such tmpfs mounts before each user login. But regardless, the point is that they may spare the SSD, but not the RAM, obviously. If you quit a cache-heavy program, its cache would still be there, leaving other programs you're running with less RAM to use....
Preliminary but works, even though I'm probably doing some stuff wrong/dumbly. Basically, "if input is idle for less than two minutes, then grep the active window, if it's the same active window for two times in three 30-second time-windows, count it as active ; after looping N times, show a rudimentary bar graph of how many times each logged window was used."
It would be nicer to actually transform the counting of each program in a percentage of the total, but it's good...
I made this script as a reply to a question on a thread before. The accidentally simplified complexity of it amazes me so I thought that it would be nice to post this on a blog as well. Original thread: https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...cpdump-800385/
The script runs and manages a service (tcpdump). It could also automatically delete files older than C days, and reduce the size of a logfile if it's already larger than N bytes....
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