I can see the value in this sort of thing, as well, when power or heat constraints exist. Which is good for me since my laptop has bad heat dissipation. But this implementation is pretty bad. I've noticed that the idle injection doesn't stop for me until the process that caused it is killed. So if it starts up while playing a video on youtube, it won't stop injecting until I kill plugin container, even if the temps go below 60C. So that's truly annoying. Also, my high temp threshold seems to be around 70C, which I feel is much too low. Is there any way to adjust that parameter, for future reference? I will likely just disable powerclamp until it works better on my machine.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1389077 Title: [HP ProBook 4530s] Intel Powerclamp is Slowing CPU Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I upgraded from KUbuntu 14.04 to 14.10. Immediately, while playing minecraft with my daughter, I noticed the game was running very slowly. Even after closing the game, my web browsing slowed to a crawl. Looking at the processes in top, I noticed there were 4 tasks called kidle_inject running at 50% CPU each. After spending a long time figuring out what caused this, I found out this is caused by the Intel Powerclamp driver. I never did anything to enable this, and haven't observed this slowdown before the upgrade. I found the powerclamp driver in the /sys/class/thermal/cooling_device5 directory: root@bkat-HP-ProBook-4530s:/sys/class/thermal/cooling_device5# cat type intel_powerclamp root@bkat-HP-ProBook-4530s:/sys/class/thermal/cooling_device5# cat cur_state -1 root@bkat-HP-ProBook-4530s:/sys/class/thermal/cooling_device5# cat max_state 50 I tried to echo 0 to cur_state, but it still reported -1 when I catted the value. There seems to be no obvious way to disable this, and this should not have been enabled in the first place. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10 Package: linux-image-3.16.0-24-generic 3.16.0-24.32 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-24.32-generic 3.16.4 Uname: Linux 3.16.0-24-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8 Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: bkat 2780 F.... pulseaudio CurrentDesktop: KDE Date: Mon Nov 3 23:16:04 2014 HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=35e1d874-a3bd-4227-acab-16f3e929d993 InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-04-22 (925 days ago) InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012) MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP ProBook 4530s ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-24-generic root=UUID=743f1686-bfe7-4e32-911d-5371633ccec8 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 RelatedPackageVersions: linux-restricted-modules-3.16.0-24-generic N/A linux-backports-modules-3.16.0-24-generic N/A linux-firmware 1.138 SourcePackage: linux UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-11-03 (0 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 05/13/2011 dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard dmi.bios.version: 68SRR Ver. F.09 dmi.board.name: 167C dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard dmi.board.version: KBC Version 22.1A dmi.chassis.asset.tag: CNU1284V1X dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvr68SRRVer.F.09:bd05/13/2011:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPProBook4530s:pvrA0001D02:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn167C:rvrKBCVersion22.1A:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvr: dmi.product.name: HP ProBook 4530s dmi.product.version: A0001D02 dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1389077/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
