Conky: Floating mode in bspwm causes high CPU usage

[Vintodrimmer]

Good day.

I'm running the default config except for own_window_type = 'normal' and font = 'Fira Mono:size=13'.

If I launch the Conky in the tiling mode, everything is normal (90% of the time at least), but if I make the window floating or even simply move the tile, the cpu load skyrockets to 20-22% and stays there. Launching in the floating mode yields the same high load.

Here's the conky -v:

conky 1.10.6_pre compiled Sat Dec 10 05:22:59 UTC 2016 for Linux 4.2.5_1 x86_64

Compiled in features:

System config file: /etc/conky/conky.conf
Package library path: /usr/lib/conky


 General:
  * math
  * hddtemp
  * portmon
  * IPv6
  * Curl
  * RSS
  * Weather (METAR)
  * Weather (XOAP)
  * wireless
  * support for IBM/Lenovo notebooks
  * builtin default configuration
  * old configuration syntax
  * Imlib2
  * apcupsd
  * iostats
  * ncurses
  * Internationalization support

 Lua bindings:
  * Cairo
  * Imlib2
  * RSVG
 X11:
  * Xdamage extension
  * Xinerama extension (virtual display)
  * Xshape extension (click through)
  * XDBE (double buffer extension)
  * Xft
  * ARGB visual
  * Own window

 Music detection:
  * MPD
  * MOC

 Default values:
  * Netdevice: eth0
  * Local configfile: $HOME/.conkyrc
  * Localedir: /usr/share/locale
  * Maximum netdevices: 64
  * Maximum text size: 16384
  * Size text buffer: 256

Distribution is Void Linux with musl if that helps.

What may be the problem here?

[easysid]

I can confirm this issue with bspwm on Arch linux.

Floating mode causes high cpu usage. Not sure if it is a bspwm issue or a conky one.

[lasers]

10 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.

[Vintodrimmer]

I'll check, but isn't the latest release still 1.10.8?

[su8]

git clone https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky
cd conky
mkdir -p build
cd build
cmake ..
make -j4 # 4 cores to run in parallel
src/conky -c myconf.conf # <-- your config goes here

[Vintodrimmer]

Thanks for the detailed instructions! Though I'm still curious about the version 1.10.9. There seems to be no corresponding tag on GitHub or am I missing something?

And yes, unfortunately, the bug is still there for me.
Here's a free floating "default" window:

And fixed "dock" variant:

EDIT: Changed the second picture to be from the same git version.

[plikhari]

Yes the current released version is 1.10.8 - git under development version is 1.10.9_pre

[lasers]

bswpm with conky's own_window_type = 'normal'... which is killed later.