- Grouped by project
- A project's vite, storybook and esbuild add up to one line.
- Unused for
- How long since each app or process last did anything.
- In RAM and compressed
- What macOS squeezed or moved to swap, per process.
See what grew before the swap did.
One reading a minute for 24 hours. Click any minute to see what was largest, what grew before it and which rules acted.
- Pressure, shaded
- Yellow when elevated, red when critical.
- Swap warnings
- A notification names what grew when swap jumps 512 MB in 15 minutes.
- Rules that wait
- Stop idle servers only when the memory is needed.
Park a project tonight. Start it again tomorrow.
Park stops a project's servers and containers. Start Again brings them back with the same folder and environment.
Rules rehearse before they act.
Presets for forgotten dev servers, idle Rails, empty Claude sessions and bloated Slack. A new rule only logs what it would do until you switch it on.
What Ballast leaves alone
- System and other users' processes
- Never touched, and neither is the app in front.
- Shells, editors and agents
- Park leaves them running.
- Unsaved work
- Apps are asked to quit, so they can refuse.
- The network
- Ballast has no network code.
