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What did this Mean exactly how is it power throttling?

What did this Mean exactly how is it power throttling?

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tryhardsoccermomswag

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tryhardsoccermomswag•4/1/24, 11:24 PM

gaming mode haunts me

Shiina

SShiina What did this Mean exactly how is it power throttling?

Kyle Gospo

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Kyle Gospo•4/1/24, 11:25 PM

Means that's the throttle reason, it's maxed out the power it's allowed to use

Kyle Gospo

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Kyle Gospo•4/1/24, 11:25 PM

at least that's what mangohud has determined

Kyle Gospo

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Kyle Gospo•4/1/24, 11:26 PM

it's not always 100% accurate

tryhardsoccermomswag

Ttryhardsoccermomswag should this be documented? this seems to happen a lot. sometimes it boots for p...

Kyle Gospo

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Kyle Gospo•4/1/24, 11:26 PM

yeah, deal w/ this all the time on the steam deck discord too

Kyle Gospo

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Kyle Gospo•4/1/24, 11:26 PM

best we document it so people have an easy out

Kid

KKid ``grep -E '^libvirt:' /usr/lib/group | sudo tee -a /etc/group && sudo usermod -a...

Kid

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Kid•4/1/24, 11:32 PM

Hikari-san, thanks for your effort!
But it still doesn't work, do you think I can just use this command above, to do it manually? (It's from the Fedora forum)

Kid

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Kid•4/1/24, 11:32 PM

@HikariKnight

HikariKnight

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HikariKnight•4/1/24, 11:33 PM

try, it wont make it any worse

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HikariKnight•4/1/24, 11:33 PM

its just a bit of an issue how it works on rpm-ostree, worst case you need to live with typing in the password for virt-manager

Kid

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Kid•4/1/24, 11:34 PM

:D
I mean it's not that bad, I'm just lazy :p

Kyle Gospo

KKyle Gospo yeah, deal w/ this all the time on the steam deck discord too

tryhardsoccermomswag

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tryhardsoccermomswag•4/1/24, 11:34 PM

https://universal-blue.discourse.group/docs?topic=37

Universal Blue

Steam Deck, Handheld, & HTPC Images (Gaming Mode)

Steam Deck images have it disabled due to causing issues with MangoHud. It will be added back when these issues are resolved. You will have to rebase to the Unstable branch. More information can be found here.

ryan

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ryan•4/1/24, 11:36 PM

yo does anyone know why duperemove takes up a solid 500% of my cpu usage

HikariKnight

HHikariKnight try, it wont make it any worse

Kid

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Kid•4/1/24, 11:36 PM

It worked!
nvm

ryan

Rryan yo does anyone know why duperemove takes up a solid 500% of my cpu usage

ryan

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ryan•4/1/24, 11:39 PM

unsure what it does for bazzite but i suppose ill disable it?

ryan

Rryan unsure what it does for bazzite but i suppose ill disable it?

termdisc

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termdisc•4/1/24, 11:40 PM

It’s a helper function for btrfs’s deduplication

tryhardsoccermomswag

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tryhardsoccermomswag•4/1/24, 11:41 PM

guh! we removed rmlint for being problematic on some hardware

now another btrfs feature

ryan

Rryan unsure what it does for bazzite but i suppose ill disable it?

tryhardsoccermomswag

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tryhardsoccermomswag•4/1/24, 11:41 PM

is it causing performance isuses?

ryan

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ryan•4/1/24, 11:42 PM

pretty stuttery, i have a few things open but sitting at 50% cpu usage no games no browsers

ryan

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ryan•4/1/24, 11:43 PM

on an r5 3600 so its not like a normal occurance

ryan

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ryan•4/1/24, 11:44 PM

is it something that should be running all the time? seems like judging by top its just running and running

ryan

Rryan is it something that should be running all the time? seems like judging by top i...

tryhardsoccermomswag

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tryhardsoccermomswag•4/1/24, 11:45 PM

no but that means it's taking a long time to complete

ryan

Rryan pretty stuttery, i have a few things open but sitting at 50% cpu usage no games ...

tryhardsoccermomswag

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tryhardsoccermomswag•4/1/24, 11:55 PM

question: do you have a secondary drive formatted to btrfs?

tryhardsoccermomswag

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tryhardsoccermomswag•4/1/24, 11:55 PM

even if that drive is a microSD

ryan

Rryan yo does anyone know why duperemove takes up a solid 500% of my cpu usage

Kyle Gospo

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Kyle Gospo•4/2/24, 12:01 AM

duperemove is cpu intensive when it does run

Kyle Gospo

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Kyle Gospo•4/2/24, 12:01 AM

it also runs with the lowest possible nice value, meaning literally anything else will execute before it

Kyle Gospo

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Kyle Gospo•4/2/24, 12:01 AM

you can turn the service off if you don't want it, note that your drive usage will go up with time

tryhardsoccermomswag

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tryhardsoccermomswag•4/2/24, 12:02 AM

i dont understand how this happens with some users tbh

tryhardsoccermomswag

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tryhardsoccermomswag•4/2/24, 12:02 AM

how does it take up so much CPU usage for them lol

Daph

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Daph•4/2/24, 12:03 AM

I tried researching it and couldn't understand why it did that for me and also slowed my games down significantly while running. All while taking over an hour

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Daph•4/2/24, 12:03 AM

On my 7800x3d and fast ssd

Daph

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Daph•4/2/24, 12:03 AM

Doesn't make any sense

tryhardsoccermomswag

Ttryhardsoccermomswag question: do you have a secondary drive formatted to btrfs?

ryan

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ryan•4/2/24, 12:04 AM

yes kind of 3, I have two nvmes combined for my 4tb home drive and a 4tb hard drive all btrfs

Daph

DDaph On my 7800x3d and fast ssd

tryhardsoccermomswag

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tryhardsoccermomswag•4/2/24, 12:05 AM

multiple storage too?

tryhardsoccermomswag

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tryhardsoccermomswag•4/2/24, 12:05 AM

and how much storage?

tryhardsoccermomswag

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tryhardsoccermomswag•4/2/24, 12:05 AM

taking a guess that the more storage you have on btrfs drives, the longer it will take

Kyle Gospo

KKyle Gospo duperemove is cpu intensive when it does run

ryan

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ryan•4/2/24, 12:05 AM

okay gotcha, just been concerned since it's been like this for a few hours

tryhardsoccermomswag

Ttryhardsoccermomswag multiple storage too?

Daph

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Daph•4/2/24, 12:06 AM

I might have had an external hard drive plugged in at the last time it ran but I only have one ssd right now. It's 2tb rated at 7000mbps

tryhardsoccermomswag

Ttryhardsoccermomswag taking a guess that the more storage you have on btrfs drives, the longer it wil...

Kyle Gospo

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Kyle Gospo•4/2/24, 12:06 AM

yep, same as any other drive operation

ryan

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ryan•4/2/24, 12:06 AM

would it be the HDD that's bogging it down most likely

ryan

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ryan•4/2/24, 12:06 AM

or is it moreso a cpu task

ryan

Rryan would it be the HDD that's bogging it down most likely

tryhardsoccermomswag

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tryhardsoccermomswag•4/2/24, 12:07 AM

that could be yea

tryhardsoccermomswag

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tryhardsoccermomswag•4/2/24, 12:07 AM

im not sure though

tryhardsoccermomswag

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tryhardsoccermomswag•4/2/24, 12:07 AM

i also have a secondary 1TB HDD, but i have it formatted to ext4

Kyle Gospo

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Kyle Gospo•4/2/24, 12:07 AM

on my desktop I have a 2TB NVME, a 1TB NVME, a 4TB SSD, and a 2TB SSD

Kyle Gospo

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Kyle Gospo•4/2/24, 12:07 AM

duperemove completes in <15 minutes, using 500% CPU (Which is 5 cores of 48)

Kyle Gospo

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Kyle Gospo•4/2/24, 12:07 AM

no stutter

ryan

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ryan•4/2/24, 12:07 AM

yea id be curious whether it's just a hard drive issue across the board

Kyle Gospo

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Kyle Gospo•4/2/24, 12:08 AM

additionally ,this same service is used on a steam deck via steamos-btrfs

ryan

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ryan•4/2/24, 12:08 AM

48 cpu cores is wild

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