conky display abnormal CPU usage

marsqing · 2007-09-29 15:28:13

The CPU usage in conky is always more than 50%. I have a dual-core T2300.
All the CPU related variable: ${cpu}, ${cpu0}, ${cpu1}, ${cpu2} are at least 50%.
It's very confusing.
Anyone can help me?

ralvez · 2007-09-29 16:50:10

Conky is only showing what's going on with the system, so I do not think this is an indication of something wrong with Conky but rather and indication that your system is somehow sucking up power.
To analyze the situation you may want to run top (or htop, which I find easier to use) and see what's being used that takes so much of your system resources.

Hope this helps.

R

leo2501 · 2007-10-01 12:01:34

i have a similar problem, in an athlon xp cpu and 512 ram conky use no more than 5% cpu usage, but in my new computer, amd 5200+ 1 gig ram, with the same .conkyrc file it was 10%-20%... so yes... something in the hard or config makes conky needs more power, but dont know why, i switch to gkrellm so i have more functionality thanks to its plugins from AUR, less cpu usage, and can put it inside the fluxbox slit, with fbpager, and make the slit always on top so if i maximize windows, them always show, gkrellm uses no more than 5% cpu usage and can display a lot of important things

marsqing · 2007-10-03 09:21:27

i have tried several system monitoring tools, including conky, gkrellm, ksysguard, gnome-system-monitor.
The reported CPU usage is always 50% at least.
When i use top, no more than 4 process whose cpu usage exceeds 1% and i am not running any server related processes.
Strange problem:(

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#1 2007-09-29 15:28:13

conky display abnormal CPU usage

#2 2007-09-29 16:50:10

Re: conky display abnormal CPU usage

#3 2007-10-01 12:01:34

Re: conky display abnormal CPU usage

#4 2007-10-03 09:21:27

Re: conky display abnormal CPU usage

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