Waybar: High CPU usage
The CPU usage of waybar
slowly increases over time until it takes up 100% of one of my cores. The rate of increase is fairly steady at ~0.04% per minute. This started fairly recently, say within the last month or so. I’ve tested with 0.9.2
, 0.9.3
, and the most recent git commit and the issue is present with all of them. I don’t think this was happening when 0.9.2
was the stable release, so it may be related to a dependency. I’m running an up-to-date Arch Linux with sway v1.5
. I’ve attached log output from both sway
and waybar
as well as my config for waybar
. The logs run until waybar
reaches 10% CPU usage (up from an inital 0.21%) at which point I killed the process. I’m not sure whether this is relevant, but I run an i3
session in another virtual terminal. I spend most of my time there, only switching to sway
when I want to watch video without tearing.
{
"layer": "top", // Waybar at top layer
// "position": "bottom", // Waybar position (top|bottom|left|right)
"height": 30, // Waybar height (to be removed for auto height)
// "width": 1280, // Waybar width
// Choose the order of the modules
"modules-left": [
"sway/workspaces",
"sway/mode",
"custom/media"
],
"modules-center": [],
"modules-right": [
"network",
"backlight",
"pulseaudio",
"battery",
"clock",
"tray"
],
"sway/workspaces": {
"disable-scroll": true,
"all-outputs": true,
"format": "{name}: {icon}",
"format-icons": {
"1": "",
"2": "",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "調",
"urgent": "",
"focused": "",
"default": ""
}
},
"mpd": {
"format": "{stateIcon} {consumeIcon}{randomIcon}{repeatIcon}{singleIcon}{artist} - {album} - {title} ({elapsedTime:%M:%S}/{totalTime:%M:%S}) ",
"format-disconnected": "Disconnected ",
"format-stopped": "{consumeIcon}{randomIcon}{repeatIcon}{singleIcon}Stopped ",
"unknown-tag": "N/A",
"interval": 2,
"consume-icons": {
"on": " "
},
"random-icons": {
"off": "<span color=\"#f53c3c\"></span> ",
"on": " "
},
"repeat-icons": {
"on": " "
},
"single-icons": {
"on": "1 "
},
"state-icons": {
"paused": "",
"playing": ""
},
"tooltip-format": "MPD (connected)",
"tooltip-format-disconnected": "MPD (disconnected)"
},
"tray": {
// "icon-size": 21,
"spacing": 10
},
"clock": {
"format": "{:%I:%M %p}",
"tooltip-format": "{:%Y-%m-%d | %I:%M %p}",
"format-alt": "{:%Y-%m-%d}"
},
"backlight": {
// "device": "acpi_video1",
"format": "{percent}% {icon}",
"on-scroll-up": "pkexec brillo -A 5",
"on-scroll-down": "pkexec brillo -U 5",
"smooth-scrolling-threshold": 3,
"format-icons": [
"",
""
]
},
"battery": {
"states": {
// "good": 95,
"warning": 30,
"critical": 15
},
"bat": "BAT0",
"adapter": "ADP1",
"format": "{capacity}% {icon}",
"format-charging": "{capacity}% ",
"format-plugged": "{capacity}% ",
"format-alt": "{time} {icon}",
// "format-good": "", // An empty format will hide the module
// "format-full": "",
"format-icons": [
"",
"",
"",
"",
""
]
},
"network": {
// "interface": "wlp2*", // (Optional) To force the use of this interface
"format-wifi": "{essid} ({signalStrength}%) ",
"format-ethernet": "{ifname}: {ipaddr}/{cidr} ",
"format-linked": "{ifname} (No IP) ",
"format-disconnected": "Disconnected ⚠",
"format-alt": "{ifname}: {ipaddr}/{cidr}"
},
"pulseaudio": {
"scroll-step": 5, // %, can be a float
"smooth-scrolling-threshold": 3,
"format": "{volume}% {icon} {format_source}",
"format-bluetooth": "{volume}% {icon} {format_source}",
"format-bluetooth-muted": " {icon} {format_source}",
"format-muted": " {format_source}",
"format-source": "",
"format-source-muted": "",
"format-icons": {
"default": [
"",
"",
""
]
},
"on-click": "pavucontrol"
}
}
About this issue
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- State: closed
- Created 4 years ago
- Reactions: 7
- Comments: 17
The new problem was https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/issues/2631, fixed in 0.9.24-1
EDIT: not a waybar developer, but it’s in the release notes
I think a new bug is occurring, as I faced the same issue again today, after an upgrade (latest from archlinux).