High usage of cpu and ram with while loop

Question

I am trying to use switch for executing a script(Let say script_a). For that i wrote a if condition in another script(Let say script_b). script_b is always running when rPi is on. While input of gpio is 1, script_a must be executed else script_b must be repeated. Here is my code:

script_b:

    if [ "$(gpio -g read 18)" = "1" ]
then
./script_a.sh&
else

sleep 0.1
./script_b.sh
fi

script_a:

if [ "$(gpio -g read 18)" = "0" ]
then

./script_b.sh&

else

sleep 0.1
./script_a.sh

fi

It works, however cpu usage is very high while gpio 18 is 0 in other words while script_b is repeating itself. How can i reduce cpu usage?

note that: i am not an expert with coding. Thank You

Edit:

So i decided to use if condition in while loop using only one script. I am trying to execute some processes while gpio 18 is 1 else do nothing. And i want to run that while loop infinitely. Here is my new code:

while [ "$(gpio -g read 18)" = "0" ]
do
sleep 0.1
done

while [ "$(gpio -g read 18)" = "1"  ]
do
#some processes are here
done

however it is exit while loop if i change switch 1 to 0.

Edit 2:

I added these lines at the and of the second while loop like that:

while [ "$(gpio -g read 18)" = "1"  ]
    do
    #some processes are here
if [ "$(gpio -g read 18)" = "0" ]
then
nohup ./stt.sh
exit 0
fi

done

And it is worked. But still cpu usage very high also there is only 20 mb free ram while this script is working. I am still open for suggestions. Are there anyway to reduce cpu and ram usage while doing my intended process.(By the way i am using htop for viewing cpu usage and free -h -s 1 for ram usage.)

Answer 1

It's strongly implied you are using some kind of loop that's not shown, otherwise these would just run once and exit.

If so, this fork is an issue:

./script_b.sh&

& puts script_b into the background without waiting. You run script_a and it hits this point because gpio 18 is 0. So it forks an execution of script_b and then, with no delay at all, does the same thing over and over as long as gpio 18 is 0.

That is not far from being a fork bomb.

Again, presuming a loop, you probably want to ./script_b.sh & exit 0 so that one script actually stops when it launches the other one.