Conky using 1.8GB of memory!?

[Sparky]

In my computer, the app that uses the most memory is conky. It is using 1.8GB Is this normal? Can I do something to make it less resource hungry?

[wdscharff]

No, Conky uses between 20-40MB, depending on distribution, kernel and desktop interface.
For me it fluctuates (mx 21, fluxbox, all kernel. incl 6xx and Liquorix) around 25-30MB, under Mint (20.something) Cinnamon it was also once around 40mb.

[Eadwine Rose]

If you could post the content of your conky file (between code tags), it might help see what in there is making it hog so much.

[Sparky]

This is from the KDE System load viewer.

[Huckleberry Finn]

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inxi -xtm20

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inxi -xtm40 | grep conky

[Sparky]

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Processes: System RAM: total: 15.53 GiB used: 11.2 GiB (72.1%) 
           Memory top: 20 of 325 
           1: mem: 1811.0 MiB (11.3%) command: conky pid: 2272 cpu: 3.6% 
           2: mem: 960.9 MiB (6.0%) command: firefox-bin pid: 756327 cpu: 2.6% 
           3: mem: 957.1 MiB (6.0%) command: firefox-bin pid: 756270 cpu: 2.8% 
           4: mem: 876.2 MiB (5.5%) command: evolution pid: 741153 cpu: 0.7% 
           5: mem: 854.0 MiB (5.3%) command: firefox pid: 756042 cpu: 20.7% 
           6: mem: 653.9 MiB (4.1%) command: firefox-bin pid: 827043 cpu: 1.8% 
           7: mem: 525.9 MiB (3.3%) command: firefox-bin pid: 770831 cpu: 10.3% 
           8: mem: 469.2 MiB (2.9%) command: firefox-bin pid: 763302 cpu: 1.8% 
           9: mem: 381.5 MiB (2.3%) command: firefox-bin pid: 909473 cpu: 7.9% 
           10: mem: 358.4 MiB (2.2%) command: plasmashell pid: 1586 cpu: 1.0% 
           11: mem: 284.9 MiB (1.7%) command: xorg pid: 1235 cpu: 6.4% 
           12: mem: 242.8 MiB (1.5%) command: kwin_x11 pid: 1508 cpu: 4.7% 
           13: mem: 171.6 MiB (1.0%) command: surfshark pid: 1151178 cpu: 0.1% 
           14: mem: 163.7 MiB (1.0%) command: firefox-bin pid: 1236263 cpu: 2.7% 
           15: mem: 154.1 MiB (0.9%) command: webkitwebprocess pid: 741205 cpu: 0.1% 
           16: mem: 144.8 MiB (0.9%) command: firefox-bin pid: 911754 cpu: 0.0% 
           17: mem: 144.5 MiB (0.9%) command: firefox-bin pid: 756348 cpu: 0.1% 
           18: mem: 141.1 MiB (0.8%) command: firefox-bin pid: 1244280 cpu: 1.0% 
           19: mem: 138.8 MiB (0.8%) command: firefox-bin pid: 981689 cpu: 0.2% 
           20: mem: 136.6 MiB (0.8%) command: firefox-bin pid: 1152578 cpu: 0.1% 

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$ inxi -xtm40 | grep conky
           1: mem: 1811.2 MiB (11.3%) command: conky pid: 2272 cpu: 3.6% 

[Huckleberry Finn]

Oh la la , it's only 18 MiB here at #23

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23: mem: 18.1 MiB (0.9%) command: conky pid: 1844 cpu: 0.2% 

There's something weird.. It's staying at #1 (like a joke :D)
(also cpu: 3.6% is too much ... abnormal ... )

[Huckleberry Finn]

Then.. what if you (just to see) select another theme?

And (if still not) turn it off , reboot and try (inxi) then turn it on .. again inxi ...

[siamhie]

No, that's not normal at all.

conky.png

[Adrian]

Might have a memory leak, something went wrong, try to restart it, monitor to see if it continues like that, maybe it's related to the theme as other people suggested, so maybe try also another theme.