Hmm, I think that when i said that it throttled below 20 fps it was mistaken for some sort of par or expectation. That was meant to show the extent of the throttling I was experiencing not setting an expectation
Might want to change this line: * the FPS must not be throttled below 20FPS. To something more like: * the FPS must not be significantly reduced Or however you think best to phrase the idea that unless the cooling system can't keep up with the load that performance shouldn't be noticeably impacted -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to thermald in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1981087 Title: thermald prematurely throttling GPU Status in thermald package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in thermald source package in Jammy: In Progress Bug description: [Impact] * thermald prematurely throttling GPU [Test Plan] Test1, * Run game on the target machine. * the FPS must not be throttled below 20FPS. Test2, * Run on others platform, e.g. TGL/CML. * Use monitoring tool(e.g. s-tui) and stress-ng to verify if the machine runs normally. [Where problems could occur] * better support for Passive Policy. currently passive policy 1 is supported and it should have a bug if the machine only enable pssive policy 2. ~~~ I got a new game and started playing it It would run at over 100 FPS solidly some of the time and then cyclically dip down to below 20 FPS for a few minutes I determined that it was thermald trying to keep my GPU below 70°C to determine this I sudo systemctl stop thermald The game ran solidly and consistently with the GPU at 75°C This is well below the specs set by the manufacturer and perhaps unreasonably low for a laptop But more importantly I was given no indication this was happening. I had to sleuth it out myself. Perhaps it is impossible to determine good defaults for all hardware, I don't know. However without an indication that this is happening there will be a lot of people with a mysteriously broken experience. This was extremely difficult for me to find and I had several friend who are experts on linux gaming and video drivers trying to track this down. I discovered it by luck and perseverance. This absolutely needs some sort of indication and hopefully a way to remedy it from the GUI. ideally it would set thermal limits that are more in line with what the device is designed for and not a conservative default if at all possible. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04 Package: thermald 2.4.9-1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-40.43-generic 5.15.35 Uname: Linux 5.15.0-40-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.1 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown CurrentDesktop: XFCE Date: Fri Jul 8 16:08:55 2022 InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-10-19 (626 days ago) InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 20.04.1 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200731) SourcePackage: thermald UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2022-06-17 (20 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thermald/+bug/1981087/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
