clipmenu

commit 9c16837227e9f90226ee7b6af1be71277389a26c
parent fc7f47f81f2b7ad8640d9c74ea22f6b536b6ac10
Author: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Date:   Sat, 28 Mar 2020 14:12:49 +0000

clipctl: Make pgrep regex less taxing

For some reason, .* is really taxing for pgrep, but if you remove it
it's way faster...

    % \time -v pgrep -nf '.*clipmenud$'
    325286
	    Command being timed: "pgrep -nf .*clipmenud$"
	    User time (seconds): 0.83
	    System time (seconds): 0.00
	    Percent of CPU this job got: 100%
	    Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0:00.83
	    Average shared text size (kbytes): 0
	    Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0
	    Average stack size (kbytes): 0
	    Average total size (kbytes): 0
	    Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 7632
	    Average resident set size (kbytes): 0
	    Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 0
	    Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 1418
	    Voluntary context switches: 1
	    Involuntary context switches: 3
	    Swaps: 0
	    File system inputs: 0
	    File system outputs: 0
	    Socket messages sent: 0
	    Socket messages received: 0
	    Signals delivered: 0
	    Page size (bytes): 4096
	    Exit status: 0
    % \time -v pgrep -nf 'clipmenud$'
    325286
	    Command being timed: "pgrep -nf clipmenud$"
	    User time (seconds): 0.04
	    System time (seconds): 0.00
	    Percent of CPU this job got: 100%
	    Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0:00.04
	    Average shared text size (kbytes): 0
	    Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0
	    Average stack size (kbytes): 0
	    Average total size (kbytes): 0
	    Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 7320
	    Average resident set size (kbytes): 0
	    Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 0
	    Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 1257
	    Voluntary context switches: 1
	    Involuntary context switches: 7
	    Swaps: 0
	    File system inputs: 0
	    File system outputs: 0
	    Socket messages sent: 0
	    Socket messages received: 0
	    Signals delivered: 0
	    Page size (bytes): 4096
	    Exit status: 0

Diffstat:
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clipctl
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2
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1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/clipctl b/clipctl
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ EOF
     exit 0
 fi
 
-_CLIPMENUD_PID=$(pgrep -u "$(id -u)" -nf '.*/?clipmenud$')
+_CLIPMENUD_PID=$(pgrep -u "$(id -u)" -nf 'clipmenud$')
 
 if [[ -z "$_CLIPMENUD_PID" ]]; then
     echo "clipmenud is not running"