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tuxedocomputers / tuxedo-control-center

A tool to help you control performance, energy, fan and comfort settings on TUXEDO laptops.
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Bad system performance with installed control center #201

Open fieteboerner opened 2 years ago

fieteboerner commented 2 years ago

Hey there, I've got a new TUXEDO TUXEDO Aura 15 Gen2 with preinstalled Ubuntu 22.04 (tuxedo). I've tested this with the default fan profile and cool & breezy.

After working a few days I've strange performance lags in video calls (slack) and in vscode. Additionally the whole system felt slowish (app launches, app build processes, ...).

After reinstalling the whole system (manjaro) the system felt way more snappy but the fan noise was very annoying. After installing tuxedo-keyboard-dkms, tuxedo-control-center and after rebooting the system was way slower than before (but silent fans). The Build-Pipeline of an application is >3 times slower with installed & active tcc. (the countertest by uninstalling + reboot everything works snappier again)

Now I have to decide to have a slow but quiet system or a faster but much louder one.

Why does this software has such a performance impact to the system? (No cpu throtteling is mentioned in the default/coll-breezy profiles) Is there a way to configure the fan speed without tcc to reduce the noise?

freechelmi commented 2 years ago

Here default " cool & breezy" limit the frequency of the processor

fieteboerner commented 2 years ago

Yeah I figured that out.

But the "default" Profile limits the frequency as well. That is not obvious at all because it is not visible on the overview card. The Label says x.xx-Boost - That does not indicate there is a Limit. Only after entering the the detail view it is possible to figure out the settings are limiting the cpu.

My Points are:

  1. It would be great to have an indicator the limit in the overview
  2. Do not limit the frequency in the default template, so somebody who just buy a tuxedo can use its full CPU and can experience its fan quality without tinkering around in the TCC.
  3. Can you recommend another Tool to configure the fan speed without limiting the cpu? With the TCC I have no control to t the fan speed if the CPU temperature is above a certain point. - The reason is the poor quality of my tuxedo. the fans are getting very loud very fast if the system is under load. I really want to reduce that noise for short peaks because it is a nightmare to work with this computer.
antoscha commented 1 year ago

Could you please try to downgrade to 1.1.4? Will performance get better?