Applescript to notify when RAM on mac is using compression or swaps. This is useful when you have SSD installed

RAM_Overuse_Notification.applescript

-- Split string by delimiter
on splitText(theText, theDelimiter)
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to theDelimiter
	set theTextItems to every text item of theText
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
	return theTextItems
end splitText

-- Get current memory stats
set vmstat to do shell script "vm_stat"
set splitStat to splitText(vmstat, ".")

-- list of memory features to check if not zero
set memList to {"Compressions", "Decompressions", "Swapins", "Swapouts"}

set notif to ""

repeat with a from 1 to length of splitStat
	set theCurrentListItem to item a of splitStat
	
	considering case
		repeat with b from 1 to length of memList
			set memItemname to item b of memList
			
			-- Check each memory feature with the list of features provided above
			if theCurrentListItem contains memItemname then
				-- Get count of the feature
				set compressionsList to splitText(theCurrentListItem, ":")
				set compressionsNum to item 2 of compressionsList
				set compressionsNum to splitText(compressionsNum, space)
				set compressionsNum to compressionsNum's last item
				
				-- check if the count is not equal to zero
				if compressionsNum is not equal to "0" then
					set notif to notif & "
" & memItemname & " " & compressionsNum
				end if
			end if
		end repeat
	end considering
end repeat

-- Show notification if count of anything is not zero
if notif is not equal to "" then
	display notification notif with title "RAM Overuse!"
end if

Setup.markdown

Steps to setup the applescript to run every hour

1. Open Terminal

2. Run crontab -e

3. Add this line-

0 * * * * osascript <FULL_PATH_TO_SCRIPT>/RAM_Overuse_Notification.applescript

4. save and exit