Conky's use more cpu over days

[Koentje]

I noticed since a few weeks that some of my conky's are using more cpu usage as the days go by.

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After 2 days

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What could be a reason of this?

[Bleys]

This is almost always caused by external calls to system tools via exec*
I would comment out all exec* calls and activate them individually until the culprit is found.

[Koentje]

This has not happened in the past. It's only since a few weeks that i noticed this growing of cpu usage.
But the cpu load conky has only a few exec commands in it in comparison to other conky's.
There are 7 of these in the script..

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${exec echo $(cat $(cat /etc/hwmon | grep coretemp | awk '{print $2}')/temp1_input)/1000 | bc}

My pcinfo script has 19 exec commands in them and GPU Radeon has even more..

I made a small bash script that does the calculating of the temps and call it in the conkyscript to expiriment a bit if that makes any difference.

Bash

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#!/bin/sh

if [ "$1" = "" ]; then
  echo "\n Calculates temperature values of coretemp\n"
else
  echo $(cat $(cat /etc/hwmon | grep coretemp | awk '{print $2}')/$1_input)/1000 | bc
fi

Conky

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${execp ./calc-coretemps.sh temp1}

Now i have to wait a day or 2 to see if it still grows..

[Pjotr]

See also:
viewtopic.php?p=2405915#p2405915

[Koentje]

As i said before, it only happens since a few weeks. The 4 years before i had no problem of this kind. And i'm aware of more conky's equals more cpu load. That's why i made a conky that monitors the cpu usage of all the conky windows. And i had always the same top 5.. like volume bars, this one has a 0.1 update interval, so i know it uses more cpu load then the rest.
But when scripting, i always try to code it so it takes the least amount of cpu usage or time to run.

I suspect an update of some kind.. but since it's already a few weeks back i have no idea which one.