I'm having trouble running conky under Enlightenment recently (it
seems to have started a month or two ago). After a while, CPU usage
shoots up to 100% on all cores. The more conky instances i run, the
sooner it happens, but even with only one it happens after a few
minutes.
When i hear my CPU fan start sounding like a jet engine, top shows
that it's Enlightenment that's the main culprit, followed by every
other Xorg process:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
82569 conrad 20 0 1238632 155060 84116 R 100.0 1.0 1:36.25
enlightenment
82530 conrad 20 0 587940 84100 55764 R 98.3 0.5 1:29.13 Xorg
82695 conrad 20 0 760092 87076 72356 S 83.4 0.5 1:14.68
kdeconnectd
82593 conrad 22 2 257904 61420 33344 R 74.2 0.4 1:07.38
terminology
82649 conrad 22 2 847524 116036 82764 R 63.2 0.7 0:56.30 keepassxc
82646 conrad 23 3 427004 49676 43788 R 57.3 0.3 0:50.50
kdeconnect-indi
82748 conrad 23 3 186032 22472 18504 S 30.5 0.1 0:26.80 conky
82747 conrad 23 3 404964 22100 18260 R 29.8 0.1 0:26.37 conky
82746 conrad 23 3 2996660 23856 18584 R 28.8 0.1 0:25.80 conky
82556 conrad 20 0 73360 5224 1920 R 19.9 0.0 0:15.30 xbindkeys
In normal usage, none of these are above 3% CPU usage, most 1% or lower.
I've tested the same conkyrc files under Gnome and don't run into this
situation. And before whatever conky update started this, i didn't
have a problem under Enlightenment either.
Can anyone suggest how to figure out what's going wrong? I attached to
a conky process with strace immediately after starting it and saw
nothing unusual. Then once the CPU went nuts i tried again and got
several MB of output in a few seconds full of the same, over and over:
strace: Process 74691 attached
recvmsg(4, {msg_name=NULL, msg_namelen=0,
msg_iov=[{iov_base="\1\2\3\27\0\0\0\0#\0\200\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\>
recvmsg(4, {msg_name=NULL, msg_namelen=0, msg_iov=[{iov_base="\241
\3\27\2\0\340\2-\2\0\0\2\0\340\2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0>
recvmsg(4, {msg_name=NULL, msg_namelen=0, msg_iov=[{iov_base="\241
\3\27\2\0\340\2.\2\0\0\2\0\340\2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0>
recvmsg(4, {msg_namelen=0}, 0) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource
temporarily unavailable)
poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN|POLLOUT}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=4,
revents=POLLIN|POLLOUT}])
recvmsg(4, {msg_name=NULL, msg_namelen=0, msg_iov=[{iov_base="\241
\3\27\2\0\340\2-\2\0\0\2\0\340\2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0>
writev(4, [{iov_base="\31\0\v\0\371\2\0\0L\200@\0!
\0\0\2\0\300\2.\2\0\0\2\0\300\2\0\0\0\0"..., iov_len=48}, {iov_base=>
poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=4, revents=POLLIN}])
recvmsg(4, {msg_name=NULL, msg_namelen=0, msg_iov=[{iov_base="\241
\4\27\2\0\300\2.\2\0\0\2\0\300\2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0>
recvmsg(4, {msg_name=NULL, msg_namelen=0, msg_iov=[{iov_base="\241
\5\27\2\0\340\2-\2\0\0\2\0\340\2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0>
recvmsg(4, {msg_namelen=0}, 0) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource
temporarily unavailable)
poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN|POLLOUT}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=4,
revents=POLLIN|POLLOUT}])
recvmsg(4, {msg_name=NULL, msg_namelen=0, msg_iov=[{iov_base="\241
\5\27\2\0\340\2.\2\0\0\2\0\340\2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0>
writev(4, [{iov_base="\31\0\v\0\371\2\0\0L\200@\0!
\0\0\2\0\300\2-\2\0\0\2\0\300\2\0\0\0\0"..., iov_len=48}, {iov_base=>
poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=4, revents=POLLIN}])
recvmsg(4, {msg_name=NULL, msg_namelen=0, msg_iov=[{iov_base="\241
\5\27\2\0\340\2-\2\0\0\2\0\340\2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0>
poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=4, revents=POLLIN}])
recvmsg(4, {msg_name=NULL, msg_namelen=0,
msg_iov=[{iov_base="\1\2\7\27\0\0\0\0#\0\200\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\>
recvmsg(4, {msg_name=NULL, msg_namelen=0, msg_iov=[{iov_base="\241
\7\27\2\0\340\2-\2\0\0\2\0\340\2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0>
recvmsg(4, {msg_namelen=0}, 0) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource
temporarily unavailable)
...ad infinitum. None of this looks particularly useful.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
-Conrad.
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Cry like rain
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