Re: Fixing sluggish performance on Thinkpad X1 Carbon 6th gen with proper BIOS settings

2018-11-29 Thread Thomas Merkel
Hello, the sluggish high CPU utilization is basically an ACPI interrupt storm, which has already been described in the following mailinglist post from Martin "ACPI interrupt storm on ThinkPad T480s" [1]. I also applied the patch / workaround from Martin which solved the issue for me. With this

Re: Fixing sluggish performance on Thinkpad X1 Carbon 6th gen with proper BIOS settings

2018-11-27 Thread Thomas Merkel
Hello, first of all thank you for sharing your BIOS settings, especially the "Thunderbolt BIOS Assist Mode". Based on this setting I've two issues depends if the Assist Mode is enabled or not. * Thunderbolt BIOS Assist Mode: Enable [1] System is okey, no sluggish high CPU utilization (on first

Re: Fixing sluggish performance on Thinkpad X1 Carbon 6th gen with proper BIOS settings

2018-10-28 Thread Robert
Hi ivpgbe@, Thanks for the details! Yes, it was not my intention to indicate anything; but since I saw those reports of bricked machines during the last days (and having Thinkpads myself) I wanted to be rather safe than sorry. regards, Robert On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 07:15:10 -0700 ivp...@eml.cc

Re: Fixing sluggish performance on Thinkpad X1 Carbon 6th gen with proper BIOS settings

2018-10-28 Thread ivpgbe
Hi Robert, I'm certainly not trolling (although I'm not sure what would be a protocol to prove it, other than posting a video that shows all mentioned BIOS settings and than a successful boot), and I'm sure you are not trolling either, as I can see a number of postings to this mailing list and

Re: Fixing sluggish performance on Thinkpad X1 Carbon 6th gen with proper BIOS settings

2018-10-28 Thread Robert
WARNING: I do not know if the orginal author is serious, or if he is trolling. But there are known issues with the stated Thunderbolt setting in BIOS that can brick your Thinkpad beyond repair (or BIOS reset). See here:

Fixing sluggish performance on Thinkpad X1 Carbon 6th gen with proper BIOS settings

2018-10-28 Thread ivpgbe
Hello, several people reported about various problems with Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon 6th gen (X1C6), when performance become sluggish and fan goes wild. [1] [2] [3] I had similar problem (system OK, become sluggish with high CPU utilization after sleep/wake), but was able to completely and