diff --git a/scripts/taler-shared/mem-snapshot.sh b/scripts/taler-shared/mem-snapshot.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e1a4b91
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/taler-shared/mem-snapshot.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# WRONG pipeline → 0 B
+mem_snapshot_json() {
+ local s=0
+ ls -d /proc/[0-9]* 2>/dev/null | while read d; do s=$((s+1)); done
+ MEM_JSON="{\"n\":$s}"
+}