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thermald package

  1. Bug #1600599
  2. Comment #21

Comment 21 for bug 1600599

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mike@papersolve.com (mike-papersolve) wrote :

started with thermald stopped:

pstate-frequency version 3.7.2
    pstate::CPU_DRIVER -> intel_pstate
    pstate::CPU_GOVERNOR -> performance
    pstate::TURBO -> 0 [ON]
    pstate::CPU_MIN -> 50% [1850000KHz]
    pstate::CPU_MAX -> 100% [3700000KHz]

start a lot of load, which sends my CPU up to crit temperature sometimes (but doesn't actually shut the machine down, so this number might be reported lower by BIOS):
stress-ng --matrix 0 -t 3m

starting thermald with log:
thermald --no-daemon --loglevel=debug > /root/thermald-debug-reduced.log 2>&1

thermald correctly reduces my performance (though it's by quite a lot) but keeps it very low even when CPU temp has been very much reduced; at this time stress-ng is still running:

mike@ossy /u/s/pstate-frequency> date; ./pstate-frequency -G; sensors
Wed Feb 8 20:50:05 EST 2017
pstate-frequency version 3.7.2
    pstate::CPU_DRIVER -> intel_pstate
    pstate::CPU_GOVERNOR -> performance
    pstate::TURBO -> 1 [OFF]
    pstate::CPU_MIN -> 43% [1600000KHz]
    pstate::CPU_MAX -> 50% [1850000KHz]
asus-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
cpu_fan: 0 RPM

acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1: +27.8°C (crit = +99.0°C)
temp2: +29.8°C (crit = +99.0°C)

coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Package id 0: +65.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +98.0°C)
Core 0: +64.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +98.0°C)
Core 1: +65.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +98.0°C)
Core 2: +65.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +98.0°C)
Core 3: +65.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +98.0°C)

stress-ng stopped for many minutes but performance still stuck on low:

mike@ossy /u/s/pstate-frequency> date; ./pstate-frequency -G; sensors
Wed Feb 8 20:53:26 EST 2017
pstate-frequency version 3.7.2
    pstate::CPU_DRIVER -> intel_pstate
    pstate::CPU_GOVERNOR -> performance
    pstate::TURBO -> 1 [OFF]
    pstate::CPU_MIN -> 43% [1600000KHz]
    pstate::CPU_MAX -> 50% [1850000KHz]
asus-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
cpu_fan: 0 RPM

acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1: +27.8°C (crit = +99.0°C)
temp2: +29.8°C (crit = +99.0°C)

coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Package id 0: +59.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +98.0°C)
Core 0: +58.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +98.0°C)
Core 1: +59.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +98.0°C)
Core 2: +59.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +98.0°C)
Core 3: +58.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +98.0°C)

at this point I stopped thermald to upload logs. I could swear I had an issue where the max freq was stuck in read-only mode and I couldn't get it back to 100% except to reboot, but I can't seem to reproduce that issue right now.