Tuned power manager tunes too low
When I updated yesterday,
powerprofilesctl was replaced with tuned. I typically run my laptop on power saver, but I noticed that when I do so, my PC grinds to a halt. KDE hangs when trying to do anything at all, including pressing meta to open the application menu.
Balanced power mode is not much better. I can only reasonably use my PC when set to performance8 Replies
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New power manager is tuned too low · Issue #1747 · ublue-os/bazzite
Describe the bug When I set the power profile to anything other than performance, my PC grinds to a halt. Basic functions like opening the application menu take > 10 seconds What did you expect ...
Interesting. I wonder if your issue is related to this one? https://discord.com/channels/1072614816579063828/1295910472268251208
I have this issue too on my Thinkpad (it's set up to be on Performance when plugged in and Power Saver when unplugged). It also results in other issues like USB not working, programs crashing, the RTC to fall behind (I don't even know how that happens), and the system to hang on shutdown for several minutes.
Let me see if I can reproduce. I'm on the Rog Ally on stable-40.20240922.0 upgrading to the latest stable and have my power profile set to powersaver. Hopefully will get the same results
rog ally does not use tuned
So it will be pointless for me to try and try and reproduce. Lol thanks Antheas 🙂
There are three possibilities:
1. Tuned balanced profile is poorly optimized
2. Kernel arguments being added by tuned that halts performance
3. Both
it's also the
power saver mode, but yeah balanced also grinds to a halt. Dunno whether power saver is worse or not though since both just seem to make things stop working
to be fair, I don't actually know whether it's tuned's fault
it would be interesting to see if it was some other part of the update or if it really is the power manager