{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/brndnmtthws/conky/issues/341","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/brndnmtthws/conky","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/brndnmtthws/conky/issues/341/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/brndnmtthws/conky/issues/341/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/brndnmtthws/conky/issues/341/events","html_url":"https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky/issues/341","id":187545769,"node_id":"MDU6SXNzdWUxODc1NDU3Njk=","number":341,"title":"Conky causes weird CPU usage pattern","user":{"login":"solitone","id":23289260,"node_id":"MDQ6VXNlcjIzMjg5MjYw","avatar_url":"https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/23289260?v=4","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/solitone","html_url":"https://github.com/solitone","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/solitone/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/solitone/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/solitone/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/solitone/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/solitone/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/solitone/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/solitone/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/solitone/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/solitone/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"id":1016784786,"node_id":"MDU6TGFiZWwxMDE2Nzg0Nzg2","url":"https://api.github.com/repos/brndnmtthws/conky/labels/cpu","name":"cpu","color":"fbca04","default":false}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":8,"created_at":"2016-11-06T06:49:08Z","updated_at":"2018-08-10T16:09:18Z","closed_at":null,"author_association":"NONE","body":"I've noticed that when conky has been running for some long time (several days), it starts using the CPU in a dodgy manner. Specifically, the load on one of my four CPU threads (I have an i7 processor, with 2 cores and 4 threads) has high cyclical peaks, as you can see in the pic below:\r\n\r\n![cpumon](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/23289260/20035766/d41ed1d6-a3f1-11e6-9bec-a7d2d427f493.jpeg)\r\n\r\nI'm pretty sure it's conky that causes this issue, since as soon as I kill conky the CPU usage pattern goes back to normal:\r\n\r\n![cpumon3](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/23289260/20035768/ef896a12-a3f1-11e6-9684-81503f06bfd2.jpeg)\r\n\r\nI'm using conky 1.9.0  provided in debian repository, and the theme [conky lua](https://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Conky+lua?content=139024) downloaded and installed manually.\r\n\r\nHere's the detail of my installation:\r\n\r\n```\r\n$ conky -version\r\nConky 1.9.0 compiled Wed Sep 10 07:11:34 UTC 2014 for Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (x86_64)\r\n\r\nCompiled in features:\r\n\r\nSystem config file: /etc/conky/conky.conf\r\nPackage library path: /usr/lib/conky\r\n\r\n X11:\r\n  * Xdamage extension\r\n  * XDBE (double buffer extension)\r\n  * Xft\r\n  * ARGB visual\r\n\r\n Music detection:\r\n  * Audacious\r\n  * MPD\r\n  * MOC\r\n  * XMMS2\r\n\r\n General:\r\n  * math\r\n  * hddtemp\r\n  * portmon\r\n  * Curl\r\n  * RSS\r\n  * Weather (METAR)\r\n  * Weather (XOAP)\r\n  * wireless\r\n  * support for IBM/Lenovo notebooks\r\n  * nvidia\r\n  * eve-online\r\n  * config-output\r\n  * Imlib2\r\n  * apcupsd\r\n  * iostats\r\n  * ncurses\r\n  * Lua\r\n\r\n  Lua bindings:\r\n   * Cairo\r\n   * Imlib2\r\n```\r\n\r\nI'm also attaching my conkyrc. [conkyrc.tar.gz](https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky/files/573682/conkyrc.tar.gz)\r\n\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/brndnmtthws/conky/issues/comments/412130027","html_url":"https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky/issues/341#issuecomment-412130027","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/brndnmtthws/conky/issues/341","id":412130027,"node_id":"MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDQxMjEzMDAyNw==","user":{"login":"lasers","id":852504,"node_id":"MDQ6VXNlcjg1MjUwNA==","avatar_url":"https://avatars2.githubusercontent.com/u/852504?v=4","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/lasers","html_url":"https://github.com/lasers","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lasers/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lasers/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lasers/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lasers/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lasers/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lasers/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lasers/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lasers/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lasers/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2018-08-10T16:09:18Z","updated_at":"2018-08-10T16:09:18Z","author_association":"COLLABORATOR","body":"1 years 9 months passed. Can you determine if you're still having this problem today on `1.10.9` or preferably `1.10.10_pre` (git)? The older versions are not trustworthy due to too many changes that can be hard to track. Thank you."}}
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