[SOLVED] An Adventure In Mitigating Throttling

[GhostLegion]

[TRACKING] Battery flipping between charging and discharging / Draws from battery even on AC

With AC connected and battery charge at the set threshold, the battery status as reported by the kernel often flips between charging and discharging, sometimes even within one or two seconds. (This can be seen using the Gnome battery icon or upower -d). AC is always reported as online. This also means I get a constant stream of udev events starting tlp, which then notices that AC is still online and does nothing, but this could probably be solved by tweaking udev rules. Some more observations: …

It looks like it started as a FW13 thing but I have seen mentions of the FW16 in the thread. I must confess I haven’t followed it closely but it is what I thought of upon reading your previous post.