I’m new to Manjaro and I’ve switched to Linux because I’m learning programming.
I come from Windows and when I open on Manjaro all the apps I normally use, the laptop starts to heat more and the fans increase their RPMs (over 4000 RPM)
The things I did to optimize:
For graphics cards I use the “video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-450xx-prime” driver - which I understand is able to use Nvidia GTX 1050 only when it’s needed.
I installed TLP-UI and set up the CPU Energy to “balance_power”
Set up fans mode to balanced with:
smbios-thermal-ctl --set-thermal-mode=balanced
Overall, the memory and CPU usage seems lower on Manjaro than Windows so I don’t understand why it’s hotter and fans make more effort on Manjaro than Windows.
It could be that I use a Windows trading software with Wine? it seems to significantly increase the CPU temperature when I open it and thus the fans to kick in.
So my questions is if there’s anything else I could do to optimize it or the use of Windows apps through Wine Server is at fault?
In the second case, there’s anything I could do to make it work smother, like Windows?
I use video-modesetting since I don’t need nvidia for my activities
apart from arch wiki page
I’ve also followed some fixing for heating problem, normal in this machine
You can also tweak TLP a bit. Try setting the min and max frequencies:
first execute in terminal: sudo tlp-stat -p
Note the min and max frequencies and adjust the config file.
My max frequency is 4.1gz. However that’s insane temps and most of the times i don’t need that, so i made the max at 3.2ghz. Your call, you can spend some time playing with the best values for you.
Also, tinker with the undervolt utility powerlimits, that also helps a lot
I knew about the arch link and from there I only set the thermal mode to balanced since in Windows I have a similar Dell app that was set to Optimized.
However, now it seems to be ok (similar to Windows).
In TLP-UI I set the CPU Energy to “balance_power” right before posting this and in the meantime the CPU usage dropped.
When I switched back to “balance_performance” (the default) it starts to heat and the fans RPMs are going up. So “balance power” seems to be ok for what I have to do.
PS: Salut, ma bucur sa vad un roman in Manjaro team
That is great, renders null the possibility of some hardware issue.
There is a mention about it in the wiki too, not sure tho the difference between the two packages mentioned there. From what i gathered it seems @Asylum has provided the most useful information.