This bug report has not seen any further follow-up for 2+ years. Closing it. If it is still not fixed please re-open this issue.
** Changed in: thermald (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Fix Released -- 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/1901266 Title: system sluggish, thermal keep frequency at 400MHz Status in thermald package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: This morning I upgraded to 20.10 from 20.04 The system was quite slow although I have a fast machine. My virtual windows 10 on virtualbox became unusable. When I tried to have the virtual machine open, I could not participate properly in a zoom call (I could still hear the people but they said that my voice was very choppy) On 20.04 I was super-happy with the speed and I could have as many apps running as I want. Based on google I started looking at % journalctl --follow and this shows quite a few errors but not repeating often enough to explain it. Then I googled some more and found that /boot/efi was writing and reading. Then I googled some more and thought I had trouble with gnome. So I reset it to default % dconf reset -f /org/gnome/ and disabled the extensions. This made things slightly better but by far not acceptable. After lots of searching I checked the frequency of the CPUs and it was at the minimum 400Hz (as shown by i7z and also other tools). I tried setting the governor with cpufreqctl and similar methods but this did not change anything. I then found an old bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1769236 and tried % sudo systemctl stop thermald this seems to work. After a few seconds the frequency shown in i7z goes to ~4500 MHz and the virtual machine seems to work fine. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10 Package: thermald 2.3-4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-25.26-generic 5.8.14 Uname: Linux 5.8.0-25-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: wl ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu50 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: skip CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Sat Oct 24 01:39:40 2020 DistributionChannelDescriptor: # This is the distribution channel descriptor for the OEM CDs # For more information see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributionChannelDescriptor canonical-oem-somerville-bionic-amd64-20180608-47+merion+X66 InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-09-27 (392 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic" - Build amd64 LIVE Binary 20180608-09:38 SourcePackage: thermald UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to groovy on 2020-10-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.thermald.thermal-conf.xml: 2020-10-24T01:35:59.781865 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thermald/+bug/1901266/+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