fix(scripts/cpu_info): ignore I/O wait time

[alexandre-abrioux]

dracula/tmux reports my CPU usage as ~20% when my computer is mostly idle, whereas other tools, such as eww and waybar, report it as only ~2%. This is because we are counting I/O wait time as CPU usage. I propose ignoring it and deducting it from the total percentage. After this, the results are coherent across tools.

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Linux branch of get_percent in scripts/cpu_info.sh now parses both idle (id) and I/O wait (wa) fields and computes CPU usage as 100 - id - wa instead of 100 - id.

Changes

Cohort / File(s)	Summary
CPU Usage Calculation scripts/cpu_info.sh	Linux branch of get_percent updated: sed/awk pipeline extracts id and wa fields; final arithmetic computes 100 - id - wa; output still passed to normalize_percent_len. No other OS branches changed.

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Areas to check:

• Correctness of the sed/awk field extraction across different top output formats/versions.
• Proper handling of edge cases (non-numeric fields, missing wa).

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Title Check	✅ Passed	The title "fix(scripts/cpu_info): ignore I/O wait time" directly aligns with the main change in the changeset. The raw summary confirms that the Linux branch of get_percent was modified to capture I/O wait time (wa) and deduct it from the total CPU calculation (100 - id - wa), which is exactly what the title describes. The title is concise, specific, and clearly communicates the primary objective without vague language or noise.
Description Check	✅ Passed	The description is directly related to the changeset and provides clear context for the changes. It explains the problem (dracula/tmux reporting ~20% CPU usage when idle while other tools report ~2%), identifies the root cause (I/O wait time being counted as CPU usage), and describes the proposed solution (ignoring and deducting I/O wait from the total percentage). This matches the technical changes documented in the raw summary and demonstrates a good understanding of what was modified and why.

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• normalize_percent_len (26-35)

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scripts/cpu_info.sh (1)

12-12: Logic is correct; verify sed pattern robustness across systems.

The calculation 100 - idle - iowait is correct. Iowait is the portion of idle time during which there was at least one outstanding block I/O request, so excluding both idle and iowait from 100% properly isolates active CPU time, aligning with standard tools.

The sed pattern structure is reasonable (..., X%* id, Y%* wa... extraction), but empirical verification across different Linux distributions and top versions is essential. Silent pattern failures (mismatches due to format variations) would produce incorrect CPU percentages without warning. Manually test the change on your systems to confirm the pattern reliably extracts idle and iowait values across your target environments.

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[ethancedwards8]

I'm a bit hesitant to merge this:

 #current
$ LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8 top -bn2 -d 0.01 | grep "[C]pu(s)" | tail -1 | sed "s/.*, *\([0-9.]*\)%* id.*/\1/" | awk '{print 100 - $1"%"}'
1.3%

#PR
$ LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8 top -bn2 -d 0.01 | grep "[C]pu(s)" | tail -1 | sed "s/.*, *\([0-9.]*\)%* id, *\([0-9.]*\)%* wa.*/\1 \2/" | awk '{print 100 - $1 - $2"%"}' 
1.9%

On an x86_64-linux Arch Linux machine. I'll test on a few more machines and see.

[ethancedwards8]

A Fedora machine:

$ LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8 top -bn2 -d 0.01 | grep "[C]pu(s)" | tail -1 | sed "s/.*, *\([0-9.]*\)%* id.*/\1/" | awk '{print 100 - $1"%"}'
57.1%
$ LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8 top -bn2 -d 0.01 | grep "[C]pu(s)" | tail -1 | sed "s/.*, *\([0-9.]*\)%* id, *\([0-9.]*\)%* wa.*/\1 \2/" | awk '{print 100 - $1 - $2"%"}'
57.1%

[ethancedwards8]

What kind of system are you testing this on?

[alexandre-abrioux]

@ethancedwards8 I've tested this on multiple x86_64-linux (NixOS) machines.
To simulate I/O wait time, you can use the following tool:

stress --io 16

https://linux.die.net/man/1/stress
https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/stress/

Then you should have a significant difference between the two commands.