Hello,
I recently got a macbook air 10 inches from 2012, it sports an i7 2nd gen, 4Gb Ram, 128Gb SSD.
I installed Debian Bookworm on it, on an luks partition, on btrfs.
It went smooth sailing, no problems at all, then completed with mbpfan.
It seemed to be running too hot tho, fan running quite strongly so I decided to install tlp
With tlp things improved slightly, but I am yet to find an optimal config, occasionally on battery it seems to be locked up at the lowest clock, even if I did not set it that way.
So I am hoping someone could have a look at my config, recommend something else and maybe suggest some other package that I am currently missing..
Code:
sudo tlp-stat -c
-- TLP 1.5.0 --------------------------------------------
+++ Configured Settings:
/etc/tlp.conf L0029: TLP_ENABLE="1"
/etc/tlp.conf L0038: TLP_WARN_LEVEL="3"
defaults.conf L0006: TLP_PERSISTENT_DEFAULT="0"
defaults.conf L0007: DISK_IDLE_SECS_ON_AC="0"
defaults.conf L0008: DISK_IDLE_SECS_ON_BAT="2"
defaults.conf L0009: MAX_LOST_WORK_SECS_ON_AC="15"
defaults.conf L0010: MAX_LOST_WORK_SECS_ON_BAT="60"
defaults.conf L0011: CPU_ENERGY_PERF_POLICY_ON_AC="balance_performance"
defaults.conf L0012: CPU_ENERGY_PERF_POLICY_ON_BAT="balance_power"
defaults.conf L0013: SCHED_POWERSAVE_ON_AC="0"
defaults.conf L0014: SCHED_POWERSAVE_ON_BAT="1"
/etc/tlp.conf L0159: NMI_WATCHDOG="0"
defaults.conf L0016: DISK_DEVICES="nvme0n1 sda"
defaults.conf L0017: DISK_APM_LEVEL_ON_AC="254 254"
defaults.conf L0018: DISK_APM_LEVEL_ON_BAT="128 128"
defaults.conf L0019: DISK_APM_CLASS_DENYLIST="usb ieee1394"
/etc/tlp.conf L0225: DISK_IOSCHED="mq-deadline mq-deadline"
defaults.conf L0021: SATA_LINKPWR_ON_AC="med_power_with_dipm max_performance"
defaults.conf L0022: SATA_LINKPWR_ON_BAT="med_power_with_dipm min_power"
defaults.conf L0023: AHCI_RUNTIME_PM_ON_AC="on"
defaults.conf L0024: AHCI_RUNTIME_PM_ON_BAT="auto"
defaults.conf L0025: AHCI_RUNTIME_PM_TIMEOUT="15"
defaults.conf L0026: PCIE_ASPM_ON_AC="default"
defaults.conf L0027: PCIE_ASPM_ON_BAT="default"
defaults.conf L0028: RADEON_DPM_PERF_LEVEL_ON_AC="auto"
defaults.conf L0029: RADEON_DPM_PERF_LEVEL_ON_BAT="auto"
defaults.conf L0030: RADEON_POWER_PROFILE_ON_AC="default"
defaults.conf L0031: RADEON_POWER_PROFILE_ON_BAT="default"
defaults.conf L0032: WIFI_PWR_ON_AC="off"
defaults.conf L0033: WIFI_PWR_ON_BAT="on"
defaults.conf L0034: WOL_DISABLE="Y"
defaults.conf L0035: SOUND_POWER_SAVE_ON_AC="1"
defaults.conf L0036: SOUND_POWER_SAVE_ON_BAT="1"
defaults.conf L0037: SOUND_POWER_SAVE_CONTROLLER="Y"
defaults.conf L0038: BAY_POWEROFF_ON_AC="0"
defaults.conf L0039: BAY_POWEROFF_ON_BAT="0"
defaults.conf L0040: BAY_DEVICE="sr0"
defaults.conf L0041: RUNTIME_PM_ON_AC="on"
defaults.conf L0042: RUNTIME_PM_ON_BAT="auto"
defaults.conf L0043: RUNTIME_PM_DRIVER_DENYLIST="mei_me nouveau radeon"
/etc/tlp.conf L0381: USB_AUTOSUSPEND="0"
defaults.conf L0045: USB_EXCLUDE_AUDIO="1"
defaults.conf L0046: USB_EXCLUDE_BTUSB="0"
defaults.conf L0047: USB_EXCLUDE_PHONE="0"
defaults.conf L0048: USB_EXCLUDE_PRINTER="1"
defaults.conf L0049: USB_EXCLUDE_WWAN="0"
defaults.conf L0050: USB_AUTOSUSPEND_DISABLE_ON_SHUTDOWN="0"
defaults.conf L0051: RESTORE_DEVICE_STATE_ON_STARTUP="0"
defaults.conf L0052: RESTORE_THRESHOLDS_ON_BAT="0"
defaults.conf L0053: NATACPI_ENABLE="1"
defaults.conf L0054: TPACPI_ENABLE="1"
defaults.conf L0055: TPSMAPI_ENABLE="1"
/etc/tlp.conf L0087: CPU_SCALING_GOVERNOR_ON_AC="schedutil"
/etc/tlp.conf L0088: CPU_SCALING_GOVERNOR_ON_BAT="schedutil"
/etc/tlp.conf L0126: CPU_MIN_PERF_ON_AC="0"
/etc/tlp.conf L0127: CPU_MAX_PERF_ON_AC="100"
/etc/tlp.conf L0128: CPU_MIN_PERF_ON_BAT="0"
/etc/tlp.conf L0129: CPU_MAX_PERF_ON_BAT="50"
Code:
sudo tlp-stat -p
--- TLP 1.5.0 --------------------------------------------
+++ Processor
CPU model = Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2677M CPU @ 1.80GHz
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_driver = intel_cpufreq
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor = schedutil
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_governors = performance schedutil
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq = 800000 [kHz]
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq = 800000 [kHz]
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1..cpu3: omitted for clarity, use -v to show all
/sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/status = passive
/sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/min_perf_pct = 27 [%]
/sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/max_perf_pct = 100 [%]
/sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo = 1
/sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/hwp_dynamic_boost = (not available)
/sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/turbo_pct = 50 [%]
/sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/num_pstates = 22
Intel EPB: unsupported CPU.
/sys/module/workqueue/parameters/power_efficient = N
/proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog = 0
+++ Platform Profile
/sys/firmware/acpi/platform_profile = (not available)
/sys/firmware/acpi/platform_profile_choices = (not available)
Code:
sudo cat /etc/mbpfan.conf
[general]
# see https://ineed.coffee/3838/a-beginners-tutorial-for-mbpfan-under-ubuntu for the values
#
# mbpfan will load the max / min speed of from the files produced by the applesmc driver. If these files are not found it will set all fans to the default of min_speed = 2000 and max_speed = 6200
# by setting the values for the speeds in this config it will override whatever it finds in:
# /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/fan*_min
# /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/fan*_max
# or the defaults.
#
# multiple fans can be configured by using the config key of min_fan*_speed and max_fan*_speed
# the number used will correlate to the file number of the fan in the applesmc driver that are used to control the fan speed.
#
min_fan1_speed = 2000 # put the *lowest* value of "cat /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/fan*_min"
max_fan1_speed = 6500 # put the *highest* value of "cat /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/fan*_max"
# temperature units in celcius
low_temp = 63 # if temperature is below this, fans will run at minimum speed
high_temp = 66 # if temperature is above this, fan speed will gradually increase
max_temp = 86 # if temperature is above this, fans will run at maximum speed
polling_interval = 1 # default is 1 seconds
Macbook air 10 inches
