testsAndMisc/linux_configuration/i3-configuration/i3blocks/cpu_monitor.sh
Krzysztof kuhy Rudnicki c8c727e9d5 i3blocks: eliminate fork-storm with persist mode + zero-fork sysfs reads
Resource-usage report showed ~29 cores of average load coming from i3blocks
helper scripts forking awk/tr/grep/bc/sensors/nvidia-smi every tick. Rewrite
all five hot-path scripts to eliminate forks:

- volume.sh: persist mode, blocks on 'pactl subscribe' event stream.
  No polling, no sleep, no fork per tick.
- gpu_monitor.sh: persist mode, single long-lived 'nvidia-smi --loop=5'
  feeds a bash 'while read' loop. Falls back to /sys for amdgpu.
- battery_status.sh: reads /sys/class/power_supply/BAT*/ directly.
  Zero forks; replaces 'acpi | awk' pipeline.
- cpu_monitor.sh: reads /proc/loadavg and k10temp/coretemp /sys/class/hwmon.
  Zero forks; replaces 'sensors | awk | tr' + bc arithmetic.
- motherboard_temp.sh: reads nct*/it*/f71* Super-I/O hwmon node directly.
  Zero forks.

Configure volume + gpu_monitor with interval=persist so i3blocks keeps
one long-lived producer each instead of forking per tick.

Also add:
- kill_stale_recorders.sh -- kill stray ffmpeg x11grab / dotnet-trace /
  dotnet-monitor processes left running after sessions.
- monitors.slice -- resource-capped user slice (CPUQuota=50%,
  MemoryMax=512M, MemorySwapMax=0 for zram safety, TasksMax=256) to
  bound future monitoring regressions.
- efficient-polling-scripts SKILL -- rules for writing status-bar and
  polling scripts without forks; fork-pipeline to bash-builtin translation
  table; verification checklist.

Verified live: strace -c on cpu_monitor.sh shows 1 execve / 0 clones;
persist producers (pactl subscribe, nvidia-smi --loop) show 0 CPU ticks
over a 3s idle sample. Per-invocation timing 1.6-1.9 ms (was 30-80 ms).
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#!/bin/bash
# i3blocks CPU monitor, zero-fork per invocation.
#
# Reads /proc/loadavg and /sys/class/hwmon/*/temp*_input directly instead
# of forking `sensors | awk | tr` and `echo | bc`. Pure bash builtins.
set -u
# Locate AMD k10temp or Intel coretemp hwmon node.
hwmon=''
for d in /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon*/; do
[[ -r ${d}name ]] || continue
read -r n < "${d}name"
case $n in
k10temp | coretemp)
hwmon=$d
break
;;
esac
done
temp='N/A'
temp_int=-1
if [[ -n $hwmon && -r ${hwmon}temp1_input ]]; then
read -r milli < "${hwmon}temp1_input"
temp_int=$((milli / 1000))
temp=$temp_int
fi
load='N/A'
load_x100=0
if [[ -r /proc/loadavg ]]; then
read -r one _ < /proc/loadavg
load=$one
# loadavg prints two decimals, e.g. "1.23" → 123, "0.05" → 5.
load_digits=${one//./}
load_digits=${load_digits##0}
load_x100=$((10#${load_digits:-0}))
fi
color='#FFFFFF'
if ((temp_int >= 0)); then
if ((temp_int < 65)); then
color='#50FA7B'
elif ((temp_int < 85)); then
color='#F1FA8C'
else
color='#FF5555'
fi
elif ((load_x100 > 0)); then
if ((load_x100 < 100)); then
color='#50FA7B'
elif ((load_x100 < 200)); then
color='#F1FA8C'
else
color='#FF5555'
fi
fi
printf '<span color="%s"> %s°C, %s</span>\n' "$color" "$temp" "$load"