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#openstack-nova - 2022-07-08
08:19:46 gibi I also have perf issues with google meet (on T14, debian sid, xorg, i3, chrome). During our calls sometimes chrome starts to hogg the CPU and the audio and video starts lagging, and clipping. I haven't figured out yet what triggers the CPU hogging
08:20:28 gibi but as CPU get hot, thermal throttling kicks in and worsen the situation
08:21:10 Uggla gibi, welcome to the club :)
08:21:20 gibi then after 1 minute chrome stops hogging the CPU and after an additional minute google meet audio/video recovers
08:21:47 gibi I suspect that in my case it is chrome that does something crazy
08:23:40 Uggla bauzas, maybe we should have a look to firmware as well.
08:24:22 Uggla *has
08:25:13 Uggla gibi, have you a moment to look at my issue ?
08:25:20 gibi yes, I'm ready now
08:25:47 gibi lets test some google meet ;)
08:25:53 Uggla yep
08:25:54 Uggla :)
08:34:22 bauzas ok, I tuned sar to report my CPU clock freq
08:34:43 bauzas we'll see, I have to join auniyal_'s meeting now :)
08:39:19 bauzas hah !
08:39:44 bauzas my clock freq turns down to 800MHz while the temperature on the devices is only about 50°C
08:39:44 bauzas my clock freq turns down to 800MHz while the temperature on the devices is only about 50°C
08:40:05 gibi that sounds bad
08:40:19 bauzas when I playing gmeet I mean
08:40:21 gibi mine can sustain 1.8GHz while hot
08:41:12 bauzas sar reports the frequency constantly flipping between 866MHz and 1.5GHz
08:41:19 bauzas every second
08:42:48 bauzas yeah, found a direct correlation
08:42:50 bauzas huzzah
08:43:05 bauzas between the CPU clock freq and the CPU usage
08:47:29 bauzas https://paste.opendev.org/show/bHWo1z8ElaEDqW2b95fZ/
08:51:35 bauzas [sbauza@sbauza ~]$ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
08:51:35 bauzas powersave
08:51:38 bauzas hmmmpfff
08:56:45 kashyap bauzas: What laptop is yours?
09:04:29 bauzas 11:02:30 CPU MHz
09:04:29 bauzas 11:02:31 all 410,34
09:04:33 bauzas t14s
09:05:21 kashyap I see
09:30:47 Uggla bauzas, maybe you can run sudo fwupdmgr get-devices it will give you fw revision on your laptop. So we could compare with mine and gibi's.
09:31:18 bauzas on a meeting with auniyal_
09:31:23 bauzas will reply later
09:31:43 bauzas but I think this is a the CPU governor's fault
09:33:12 gibi I have a ThinkPad T14s Gen 1
09:33:48 gibi hm, the powersave governor could be a problem
09:34:01 Uggla bauzas from release note latest system relase note: • Updated includes thermal optimization.
09:35:55 Uggla clearly mine is not at the latest version 0.1.15 vs 0.1.21
09:38:52 Uggla so bauzas has you have received this laptop first maybe maybe your fws are really "old".
09:39:55 Uggla My current version: https://paste.openstack.org/show/b9cnjsnSNOqzjw52AA8L/
09:47:45 gibi this is mine https://paste.opendev.org/show/b48RVDFNHGRaeHUq2qMg/
10:10:11 sean-k-mooney1 bauzas: powersave keep the cpu at the minium frequency
10:10:42 sean-k-mooney you should set it to the hardware pstate dirver or use ondemand
10:10:56 sean-k-mooney also i recommend not using tuned
10:11:14 sean-k-mooney i have had severl issue with it in the past so i dont trust it anymore
10:12:11 sean-k-mooney by issue i mean putting one or both ports in a bond to sleep or disabling my mouse/keyboard randomly
10:14:55 bauzas sean-k-mooney1: yup, was considering to use ondemand
10:15:14 bauzas sean-k-mooney1: but I'd like a governor different between being plugged or not
10:15:24 bauzas I thought Fedora was managing it but apparently not
10:15:46 sean-k-mooney bauzas: i used to use udev rules to do that
10:15:57 bauzas yup, that's what I thought I need to do
10:16:02 sean-k-mooney ill see if i have them but i dont know if i have it on this laptop since i reinstalled
10:16:04 bauzas but this sucks for users
10:16:19 bauzas how many people know about udev rules ?
10:16:24 bauzas and systemctl ?
10:16:34 sean-k-mooney well gnome/cinanamon/kde often can
10:16:55 sean-k-mooney its normally built into the destop envionment
10:16:56 bauzas why can't we have a standard behaviour to be ondemand when plugged and powersave when unplugged ?
10:16:58 sean-k-mooney with a nice gui
10:17:07 bauzas sean-k-mooney: yup, and I saw it
10:17:23 bauzas sean-k-mooney1: but now with F35 and F36, this is stuck to powersave apparently
10:17:38 bauzas I still have the GUI but clicking makes no result
10:17:39 sean-k-mooney have you tried removing tuned
10:17:53 sean-k-mooney its not using tuned to implement this
10:17:56 bauzas and I can't define a plugged/unplugged strategy like before
10:17:58 sean-k-mooney so it could be fighting with it
10:18:19 bauzas I haven't investigated it
10:18:34 sean-k-mooney https://linux.die.net/man/1/gnome-power-manager
10:18:37 bauzas I'm already glad I found the root cause...
10:18:45 sean-k-mooney that is what shoudl be doing it on the gnome side
10:19:11 bauzas but again, how many users are knowing how to collect power metrics with sar ?
10:19:20 bauzas and even knowing what sar is ?
10:19:44 sean-k-mooney well your not going to find me defending fedroa
10:19:51 sean-k-mooney you know i stongly dislike it
10:19:55 bauzas if you want MHO, Fedora is too much opiniated about what people should do
10:20:02 sean-k-mooney just pointing out its probaly tuned that is the issue
10:20:11 bauzas I'll look into it
10:20:17 bauzas thanks
10:21:08 sean-k-mooney i havenet used fedora since f33 or f32 but it did not used to have tuned installed so i wonder whne that got added
10:22:58 kashyap sean-k-mooney: I'm on F36, and I don't have 'tuned' installed by default (mine is a 'Workstation' install)
10:23:34 sean-k-mooney ack
10:23:40 sean-k-mooney i wonder why bauzas has it then
10:23:52 bauzas I haven't said I have tuned
10:24:01 sean-k-mooney oh i tought you did
10:24:19 sean-k-mooney ignore the noise then
10:24:35 bauzas [sbauza@sbauza ~]$ rpm -qa | grep tuned
10:24:35 bauzas [sbauza@sbauza ~]$
10:24:57 bauzas I'll continue on it this afternoon
10:25:06 bauzas looks like an Hack&Hustle session
10:26:31 sean-k-mooney ya maybe
10:26:46 sean-k-mooney let us know if you figure it out either way
10:27:06 bauzas my sar figures are explicit
10:27:13 bauzas my temperature was still fine
10:27:31 bauzas but I was struggling with CPU clock freq at 400Mhz
10:27:44 bauzas and my audio was then choppy as the load was spiking up to 8.0
10:27:54 bauzas (8 CPUs, which is normal)

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