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Today I pulled my steam deck out of my backpack to find that it ate 15% of the battery sitting in the bag. I swear I heard the fan running in the bag.

Now, the fan is just running all the time whether I'm doing anything or not. This is incredibly suspicious battery eating behavior that I don't recall experiencing before. I've checked what's running with top and the Steam instance and two web helpers seem to constantly be eating up 30% of the CPU.

Has anyone experienced this before? Any tips or ideas on how to debug? I don't think the fan should be running all the time, just sitting on the main menu doing absolutely nothing.

The Deck has been sitting here on, doing nothing on the home screen for about an hour, and 20% of the battery has been used. This thing would never last 48 hours doing absolutely nothing.

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[–] Fubarberry@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Check your temps, you might have a bad thermal reading.

Of course I'd suggest rebooting and stuff, see if that fixes it.

[–] timi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Done several reboots. If I go to desktop mode and kill the steam process, the fans stop.

How do I go about getting the thermal readings?

[–] Fubarberry@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Open the performance overlay to the highest level, you can also set it to show on steam menus as well.

Since it sounds like the fans are specifically being controlled by steam though, try swapping your fan curve. There's an option in steam OS to use old fan curve, I think it's under system. You could also install the decky plugin fantastic and try adjusting the fan curve there.

[–] timi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The problem is the insane CPU usage by the steam process and it’s associated web helpers as shown in the other comments. The fans are doing what they’re supposed to.

[–] Fubarberry@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks!

Trying to join the channel through element, but it's telling me I haven't been invited to the room. My matrix username is @fubarberry:matrix.org if you need to add me to the chat that way.

[–] MoiraPrime@lib.lgbt 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sometimes when you put it to sleep, it doesn't actually sleep and the screen stays on but black.

Only thing that seems to fix it if holding down the button until it turns off, then turning it back on again.

[–] rotopenguin@infosec.pub 4 points 1 year ago

I find that the "click" of the trackpads is a pretty good tell whether it's really asleep or not.

[–] Kale@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Yea this occasionally happens to mine. For me it seems to be something with updates on system and decky.

[–] timi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Here are the results from top -- again just sitting on the main home screen doing nothing at all.

[–] spaduf@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Am I understanding correctly that you did not sleep it or turn it off before putting it in your bag?

[–] timi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

No, you are not understanding correctly.

[–] Kaizar@tezzo.f0rk.pl -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah man somet fucked in the background my deck turned on with screen off in desktop mode uses maybe 5% battery in 20 min?

Throw this in ur terminal ps -eo pid,ppid,cmd,%cpu --sort=-%cpu | head -n 11

[–] timi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
(1)(deck@steamdeck ~)$ ps -eo pid,ppid,cmd,%cpu --sort=-%cpu | head -n 11
    PID    PPID CMD                         %CPU
   1880    1632 /home/deck/.local/share/Ste 44.5
   1551    1275 /home/deck/.local/share/Ste 15.0
   1643    1631 /home/deck/.local/share/Ste 15.0
   1274    1181 mangoapp                     6.7
   1204    1181 gamescope --generate-drm-mo  5.2
   1591    1551 /home/deck/.local/share/Ste  5.2
   1211    1075 Xwayland :0 -rootless -term  5.0
      1       0 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd sp  1.9
      7       2 [kworker/u32:0-btrfs-endio]  1.5
   1213    1075 Xwayland :1 -rootless -term  1.3

Something Valve implemented is out of control. How do I get this to not truncate the command?

[–] rodhlann@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

Well, you better go catch it

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