Hello,
While attempting run to relatively high load games, the CPU of my laptop is severely throttled to the point of running a whole GHz short of what it normally does. I’ve only observed this when gaming, but that’s the only high load applications I run on this device.
My inxi output:
System:
Kernel: 5.13.8-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.13-x86_64
root=UUID=aa563829-0d1e-465c-8f93-296f552562c6 rw acpi_osi=!
"acpi_osi=Windows 2020" quiet apparmor=1 security=apparmor
udev.log_priority=3 thermal.nocrt=1
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.22.4 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM
Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Pavilion Power Laptop 15-cb0xx
v: Type1ProductConfigId serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter>
Mobo: HP model: 836B v: 46.24 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: F.41
date: 12/01/2020
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 58.2 Wh (100.0%) condition: 58.2/58.2 Wh (100.0%)
volts: 17.2 min: 15.4 model: HP Primary type: Li-ion serial: N/A
status: Full
Memory:
RAM: total: 15.52 GiB used: 5.15 GiB (33.2%)
RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-7300HQ bits: 64 type: MCP
arch: Kaby Lake family: 6 model-id: 9E (158) stepping: 9 microcode: EA
cache: L2: 6 MiB bogomips: 20004
Speed: 2452 MHz min/max: 800/3500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2452 2: 2495
3: 2365 4: 2458
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon art
avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush clflushopt cmov constant_tsc cpuid
cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept ept_ad erms est
f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht hwp hwp_act_window
hwp_epp hwp_notify ibpb ibrs ida intel_pt invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm lm
mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe mpx msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat
pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts
rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep smap smep ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1
sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust
tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt
xsaves xtopology xtpr
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf
mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT disabled
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
IBRS_FW, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 630 vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915
v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:591b class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: nvidia v: 470.57.02 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 01:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:1c8d class-ID: 0300
Device-3: Realtek HP Wide Vision HD Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
bus-ID: 1-4:3 chip-ID: 0bda:58eb class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 compositor: kwin_x11 driver:
loaded: modesetting,nvidia alternate: fbdev,intel,nouveau,nv,vesa
display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1013x285mm (39.9x11.2")
s-diag: 1052mm (41.4")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142 size: 344x194mm (13.5x7.6")
diag: 395mm (15.5")
Monitor-2: HDMI-1-0 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 96
size: 509x286mm (20.0x11.3") diag: 584mm (23")
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 630 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.1.6
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel CM238 HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a171 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: SteelSeries ApS SteelSeries Arctis 1 Wireless type: USB
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 1-3.5:7 chip-ID: 1038:12d0
class-ID: 0300
Device-3: JMTek LLC. USB PnP Audio Device type: USB
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 1-3.6:8 chip-ID: 0c76:161e
class-ID: 0300
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.13.8-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: sndio v: N/A running: no
Sound Server-3: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
Sound Server-4: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
Sound Server-5: PipeWire v: 0.3.33 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel Wireless 7265 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: 4000
bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:095a class-ID: 0280
IF: wlo1 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000 bus-ID: 05:00.0
chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
bus-ID: 1-7:5 chip-ID: 8087:0a2a class-ID: e001
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.03 TiB used: 278.13 GiB (26.3%)
ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 maj-min: 179:0 model: SD8GB size: 7.64 GiB block-size:
physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: SSD serial: <filter> scheme: MBR
SMART Message: Unknown smartctl error. Unable to generate data.
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-2: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: LITE-ON model: CA1-8D128-HP
size: 119.24 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: A182 temp: 47.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM049-2GH172
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: RXM3 scheme: GPT
Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 101.87 GiB size: 99.71 GiB (97.88%)
used: 25.87 GiB (25.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
label: N/A uuid: aa563829-0d1e-465c-8f93-296f552562c6
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 288 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
label: NO_LABEL uuid: 3B9E-2E4B
ID-3: /home/<filter>/hdd raw-size: 931.51 GiB size: 915.82 GiB (98.31%)
used: 252.25 GiB (27.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: N/A
uuid: 85edc2b6-3629-4ebe-9e02-9bb31b61f4bd
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 17.08 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3 label: N/A
uuid: a37726db-810f-4b73-aa2d-555275657512
Unmounted:
ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0p1 maj-min: 179:1 size: 6.7 GiB fs: vfat label: EMUNAND9SD
uuid: 4641-0000
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 16 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Hub-2: 1-3:2 info: HP LP2475w Monitor Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
power: 2mA chip-ID: 03f0:2f24 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-3.2:4 info: Valve Wireless Steam Controller type: Keyboard,HID
driver: hid-steam,usbhid interfaces: 5 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA
chip-ID: 28de:1142 class-ID: 0300
Hub-3: 1-3.4:6 info: Microchip (formerly SMSC) USB 2.0 Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s power: 2mA chip-ID: 0424:2514 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-3.4.3:9 info: Razer USA BlackWidow Lite (2018)
type: Keyboard,Mouse driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 1532:0235 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: 1-3.4.4:10 info: Razer USA Razer Naga Pro type: Mouse,Keyboard
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 5 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
power: 100mA chip-ID: 1532:0090 class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
Device-3: 1-3.5:7 info: SteelSeries ApS SteelSeries Arctis 1 Wireless
type: Audio,HID driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid interfaces: 4
rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 1038:12d0 class-ID: 0300
Device-4: 1-3.6:8 info: JMTek LLC. USB PnP Audio Device type: Audio,HID
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 1.1
speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 0c76:161e class-ID: 0300
Device-5: 1-4:3 info: Realtek HP Wide Vision HD Camera type: Video
driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA
chip-ID: 0bda:58eb class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Device-6: 1-7:5 info: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: Bluetooth
driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA
chip-ID: 8087:0a2a class-ID: e001
Hub-4: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 8 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 69.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 251 Uptime: 9m wakeups: 1 Init: systemd v: 248 tool: systemctl
Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 Packages: 1295 pacman: 1288 lib: 356 flatpak: 0
snap: 7 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.8 running-in: yakuake inxi: 3.3.06
What I’ve observed: A short while after starting the game, the CPU which normally runs at about 3.2GHz will throttle down to 2.2GHz incurring a significant hit to performance resulting in intermittent stuttering and low FPS. I’ve tested this with several games including FFXIV, Trails of Cold Steel 3 and Guilty Gear Strive.
What I’ve tried to no effect:
-setting the governor to “performance”
-disabling and removing TLP
-setting thermal.nocrt=1 in the kernel arguments
-updating the kernel to 5.13 from 5.10
-setting the ACPI OSI to “Windows 2020”(I did get a slightly faster boot time though, so yay)
I suspect this may be a thermal issue, as I’m not hearing the fans spin up under load the same way they used to under Windows and because the cpu frequency observed in cpupower-gui slowly returns to the expected 3.2GHz when idle. fancontrol doesn’t appear to be able to detect the fans, so I can’t properly verify anything objective other than they’re running, which I suspect is a byproduct of HP’s design for the thing since I wasn’t able to get any good info from the fans with similar utilities on Windows.
Any idea how I can further diagnose/troubleshoot this? Are there any sort of HP laptop specific fixes I need to apply?
