Laptop heating and battery draining in sleep

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My laptop heats up and drains the battery on suspend mode in linux but I noticed similar battery draining in Windows but no heating of the laptop.
Here is inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --width:

System:
  Kernel: 5.19.0-2-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.1.1
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.19-x86_64
    root=UUID=dae9727b-8cef-4e55-b5e1-9f5533258a08 rw quiet splash
    vt.global_cursor_default=0 udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.24.6 tk: Qt v: 5.15.5 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM
    Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 15-dw3xxx v: Type1ProductConfigId
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 881D v: 50.29 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Insyde
    v: F.54 date: 05/11/2022
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 40.2 Wh (100.0%) condition: 40.2/41.0 Wh (98.0%)
    volts: 12.9 min: 11.3 model: Hewlett-Packard PABAS0241231 type: Li-ion
    serial: <filter> status: full
Memory:
  RAM: total: 7.51 GiB used: 3.47 GiB (46.3%)
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges
    required.
CPU:
  Info: model: 11th Gen Intel Core i3-1125G4 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Tiger Lake gen: core 11 built: 2020 process: Intel 10nm family: 6
    model-id: 0x8C (140) stepping: 1 microcode: 0xA4
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 tpc: 2 threads: 8 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 320 KiB desc: d-4x48 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 5 MiB desc: 4x1.2 MiB L3: 8 MiB
    desc: 1x8 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2000 min/max: 400/3700 scaling: driver: intel_pstate
    governor: powersave cores: 1: 2000 2: 2000 3: 2000 4: 2000 5: 2000 6: 2000
    7: 2000 8: 2000 bogomips: 31960
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat
    arch_capabilities arch_perfmon art avx avx2 avx512_bitalg avx512_vbmi2
    avx512_vnni avx512_vp2intersect avx512_vpopcntdq avx512bw avx512cd
    avx512dq avx512f avx512ifma avx512vbmi avx512vl bmi1 bmi2 bts cat_l2
    cdp_l2 clflush clflushopt clwb 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 fsrm fxsr gfni ht hwp hwp_act_window hwp_epp
    hwp_notify hwp_pkg_req ibpb ibrs ibrs_enhanced ibt ida intel_pt invpcid
    invpcid_single lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe movdir64b
    movdiri msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx ospke pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm
    pdpe1gb pebs pge pku pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pts rdpid rdrand rdseed
    rdt_a rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep sha_ni smap smep split_lock_detect ss ssbd
    sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc
    tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer tsc_known_freq umip vaes vme vmx vnmi
    vpclmulqdq vpid x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt xsaves xtopology xtpr
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
    prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
    sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Enhanced IBRS, IBPB: conditional, RSB filling
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel
    arch: Gen-12.1 process: Intel 10nm built: 2020-21 ports: active: eDP-1
    empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, DP-4, HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 0000:00:02.0
    chip-ID: 8086:9a78 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Quanta HP TrueVision HD Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
    bus-ID: 1-5:2 chip-ID: 0408:5365 class-ID: 0e02
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.4 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev alternate: vesa gpu: i915 display-ID: :0
    screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22")
    s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: AU Optronics 0x3791 built: 2020 res: 1920x1080
    hz: 60 dpi: 142 gamma: 1.2 size: 344x194mm (13.54x7.64") diag: 395mm (15.5")
    ratio: 16:9 modes: 1920x1080
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (TGL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 22.1.4
    direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl
    alternate: snd_hda_intel,snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl bus-ID: 0000:00:1f.3
    chip-ID: 8086:a0c8 class-ID: 0401
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.19.0-2-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.21 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.56 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 0000:00:14.3
    chip-ID: 8086:a0f0 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
    broadcast: <filter>
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8168 v: 8.050.03-NAPI modules: r8169
    port: 3000 bus-ID: 0000:01:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter>
  WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 1-10:4 chip-ID: 8087:0026 class-ID: e001
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel Volume Management Device NVMe RAID Controller driver: vmd
    v: 0.6 port: N/A bus-ID: 0000:00:0e.0 chip-ID: 8086:9a0b rev: class-ID: 0104
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 22.43 GiB (9.4%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital model: PC SN530
    SDBPNPZ-256G-1006 size: 238.47 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
    logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
    rev: HPS2 temp: 47.9 C scheme: GPT
  Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 64 GiB size: 62.44 GiB (97.57%) used: 22.35 GiB (35.8%)
    fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 maj-min: 259:5 label: N/A
    uuid: dae9727b-8cef-4e55-b5e1-9f5533258a08
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 260 MiB size: 256 MiB (98.46%) used: 81.4 MiB
    (31.8%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 label: SYSTEM
    uuid: 60E2-68A1
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 size: 16 MiB fs: <superuser required>
    label: N/A uuid: N/A
  ID-2: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3 size: 173.68 GiB fs: bitlocker
    label: N/A uuid: N/A
  ID-3: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4 size: 529 MiB fs: ntfs label: Windows
    RE tools uuid: 762C89132C88D013
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 12 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-5:2 info: Quanta HP TrueVision HD Camera type: Video
    driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA
    chip-ID: 0408:5365 class-ID: 0e02
  Device-2: 1-6:3 info: Elan Micro ELAN:ARM-M4 type: <vendor specific>
    driver: N/A interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA
    chip-ID: 04f3:0c00 class-ID: 0000
  Device-3: 1-10:4 info: Intel AX201 Bluetooth type: Bluetooth driver: btusb
    interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 8087:0026
    class-ID: e001
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 39.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 fan-2: 0
Info:
  Processes: 258 Uptime: 15m wakeups: 4701 Init: systemd v: 251
  default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.1.1 clang: 14.0.6
  Packages: 1281 pacman: 1279 lib: 335 flatpak: 0 snap: 2 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9
  default: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.20

Any help will be appreciated.

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https://linrunner.de/tlp/settings/
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/TLP

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Suspend

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No, I think the problem is deeper than that. Virtually nothing should be running in sleep mode, especially not the CPU, so the battery shouldn’t get drained much. Letting go of the battery issue, the heat could have been caused by some other component in low power mode, but then why didn’t I notice this behavior in Windows?

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just to make sure for my understanding, this heat problem happens in sleep mode but it does not in regular use ?

5

Well… In regular use the laptop sort of heats up but not too much. In sleep mode in absence of the fan spinning it gets pretty hot on the bottom.

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is there a power-led at your laptop ? if so does it still lights on even in sleep-mode ?

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The power LED fades in and out slowly. In normal usage it stays solid.

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please read the full article of the link, i only quote the last section. you should set up your system for hibernation/sleep right, that means because you don’t use a swap file your laptop cannot go to real sleep/hibernation mode because RAM and the depending chipset for refreshing RAM etc must keep on. you should set up a system where your laptop stores it to a file (your nvme is quite fast) and is able to shut down after storing.

System does not power off when hibernating

When you hibernate your system, the system should power off (after saving the state on the disk). Sometimes, you might see the power LED is still glowing. If that happens, it might be instructive to set the HibernateMode to shutdown in sleep.conf.d(5):

/etc/systemd/sleep.conf.d/hibernatemode.conf

[Sleep]
HibernateMode=shutdown

With the above configuration, if everything else is set up correctly, on invocation of a systemctl hibernate the machine will shutdown saving state to disk as it does so.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Hibernation

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I’ll try and see if it works.

10

Wait does that mean I have to hibernate instead of sleep?

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as the article describes, if your laptop is able to switch in S3 mode it is able to use the RAM, if it is not it keeps on. in general your nvme is quite fast and the safe option is to store to file and go to full sleep. better safe than sorry. if you’ll use this way you are on the safe and the difference between nvme and ram storage isn’t worth a argue because it’s only some few milliseconds.

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Are you sure that generates that much heat?

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so far anyone of us can only guess. no one knows what settings of your power-management are set. the only thing i know is that the intel-cpu is heating up a lot and if your fans stop complete while it is still active in any way this heats up. the next question is what is hot ? i don’t know from here. the only thing i would recommend is to use the safe way for hibernation if you really need hibernation. also keep in mind this mode is not designed to stay over for a night. there had been “specialists” who put their laptop in sleep mode, going to sleep for themselves and wonder that the battery is drained next day.

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maybe your battery is defective and also heating up, while sleep there is little power consumed