Bad %cpu_usage reported by i3 status

[liar666]

Welcome

• Yes, I'm using the latest major release or the current development version. These are the only supported versions.
• Yes, I've searched similar issues and discussions on GitHub and didn't find any.

Current Behavior

Using i3 4.23 & i3status 2.14-non-git
In my config, I display cpu_usage
As shown in picture, even when CPU usage is very High (184%+), reported value by i3 status is very low (13%):

Expected Behavior

Percentage of cpu reported by i3status and other system tools (top, ps, etc.) should be the same.

Reproduction Instructions

• Use a (Intel) 16 core machine
• Configure i3status to display cpu_usage
• Run high cpu usage command (aarch64 VM in my case)
• Display cpu usage in standard linux tool (e.g. top)
• Observe that i3status reported value is incorrect

i3 version

Binary i3 version:  4.23 (2023-10-29) © 2009 Michael Stapelberg and contributors
Running i3 version: 4.23 (2023-10-29) (pid 3187)
Loaded i3 config:
  /home/guillaume.muller/.config/i3/config (main) (last modified: Fri Aug  2 14:01:42 2024, 4563044 seconds ago)

The i3 binary you just called: /usr/bin/i3
The i3 binary you are running: i3

Config file

general {
    output_format = "i3bar"
    markup = pango
    interval = 1
    colors = false
    # color_good = "#0000FF"
    # color_degraded = "#00FF00"
    # color_bad = "#FF0000"
}

order += "cpu_usage"
order += "load"
order += "cpu_temperature 0"
order += "memory"
order += "disk /"
order += "disk /home"
order += "ethernet _first_"
order += "wireless _first_"
#order += "volume master"
order += "battery 0"
order += "tztime local"


tztime local {
        format = "<span background='#4c566a' color='#d8dee9'><b>🗓 %a %d %b %H:%M:%S</b></span>" #  🗒 📅
}

cpu_usage {
        format = "<span background='#4c566a' color='#d8dee9'> 󰻠 %usage <span color='#81a1c1'></span></span>" #  🖥 💻 🖥 🧠 %cpu0 %cpu1 %cpu2 %cpu3
        max_threshold = 75
}

load {
        format = "<span background='#4c566a' color='#d8dee9'> %1min <span color='#81a1c1'></span></span>" #  🖥 💻 🖥 🧠 %cpu0 %cpu1 %cpu2 %cpu3
        max_threshold = 75
}

cpu_temperature 0 {
        format = "<span background='#4c566a' color='#d8dee9'>  %degrees °C </span>"
        path = "/sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone8/temp"
        max_threshold = 75
}

memory {
        format = "<span background='#4c566a' color='#d8dee9'>  %percentage_free </span> " #   📒 %available (%used) / %total
}

disk "/" {
        format = "<span background='#4c566a' color='#d8dee9'> 󰋊 / %avail (%percentage_avail) </span>"  # 󰉉󰧯  󰋊󱁋  🖴 %availaible = for user / %free = for system
        format_below_threshold = "<span background='#4c566a' color='#ff0000'> 󰋊 / %avail (%percentage_avail) </span>"
        low_threshold = 10
        threshold_type = percentage_free
        prefix_type = binary # binary / decimal / custom
}

disk "/home" {
        format = "<span background='#4c566a' color='#d8dee9'> 󰋊 /h %avail (%percentage_avail) </span>" # 💾 🖴 %availaible = for user / %free = for system
        format_below_threshold = "<span background='#4c566a' color='#ff0000'> 󰋊 /h %avail (%percentage_avail) </span>"
        low_threshold = 10
        threshold_type = percentage_free
        prefix_type = binary # binary / decimal / custom
}

ethernet _first_ {
        format_up = "<span background='#4c566a'>󰈁 <span color='#d8dee9'>%ip</span></span>" # 󰈀󰈁󰈂  🖧 🕸 🔀
        format_down = "<span background='#4c566a'>󰈂 </span>" # <span color='#Fe515c'> 🞪 </span> ❌ 🖧 🕸 🔀
}

# OLD wireless _first_ {
#         format_up = "<span background='#4c566a'> <span color='#d8dee9'> %essid (%quality) </span></span>" # %ip
#         format_down = "<span background='#4c566a'> <span color='#5e81ac'> ❌ </span></span>"
# }

wireless _first_ {
        format_up = "<span background='#4c566a'>󰤨 <span color='#d8dee9'>%ip</span></span> <span background='#4c566a' color='#d8dee9'>REPLACE_ETH_SPEED</span>" #   󰖩󰖪󱛅󱚼󰤨󰤭󰤯󰤮 Will be replaced by external ~/.config/i4status/network_load.sh script
        format_down = "<span background='#4c566a'>󰤮 </span> <span color='#d8dee9' background='#4c566a'>REPLACE_ETH_SPEED</span>" #  <span color='#5e81ac'> 🞪 </span> ❌  🕸 🔀
}

# volume master {
#         format = "<span background='#4c566a' color='#d8dee9'> 🔊 %volume </span>"
#         format_muted = "<span background='#4c566a' color='#5e81ac'> 🔇 Muted </span>"
#         device = "default"
#         mixer = "Master"
#         mixer_idx = 0
# }

# battery 0 {
#         last_full_capacity = true
#         format = "<span background='#4c566a' color='#d8dee9'>%status %percentage </span>" # %remaining 
#         path = "/sys/class/power_supply/BAT%d/uevent"
#         format_down = "<span color='#bf616a'> 󱉝</span>"   # 🕸  ↯⌁ 🔋  󱉝󱉞
#         status_chr  = "<span color='#81a1c1'> 󱟦</span>"   #  ⬆ 🔺 ⏚ ⚡ 󱟠󱟞 󱟡󱟟  󱟦󱟤  󰁺󰁼󰁾󰁿󰂁
#         status_bat  = "<span color='#d08770'> 󱟤</span>"   #  ⬇ 🔻
#         status_unk  = "<span color='#bf616a'> 󰂑</span>"   #  󰂑
#         status_full = "<span color='#a3be8c'> 󰁹</span>"    # ☻  󱊣󱟢 󰁹
#         low_threshold = 10
#         threshold_type = percentage
#         integer_battery_capacity = true
#         hide_seconds = true
# }

battery 0 {
        format = "<span background='#4c566a'>%status %percentage</span>" # %remaining 
        path = "/sys/class/power_supply/BAT%d/uevent"
        format_down = "󱉝"   # 🕸  ↯⌁ 🔋  󱉝󱉞
        # color='#bf616a'
        status_chr  = "󱟦"   #  ⬆ 🔺 ⏚ ⚡ 󱟠󱟞 󱟡󱟟  󱟦󱟤  󰁺󰁼󰁾󰁿󰂁
        # color='#81a1c1'
        status_bat  = "󱟤"   #  ⬇ 🔻
        # color='#d08770'
        status_unk  = "󰂑" #  󰂑
        #  color='#bf616a'
        status_full = '󰁹'    # ☻  󱊣󱟢 󰁹
        #color_full = '#a3be8c'
        last_full_capacity = true
        low_threshold = 10
        threshold_type = percentage
        hide_seconds = true
        integer_battery_capacity = true
}

Linux distribution & Version

Mint 22

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Logfile

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[i3bot]

I don’t see a link to logs.i3wm.org. Did you follow https://i3wm.org/docs/debugging.html? (In case you actually provided a link to a logfile, please ignore me.)