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October 18th, 2021 09:00
WiFi Causing high CPU usage in Ubuntu 21.10, 21.04, 20.04 and Linux Mint for new Inspiron 5515
I'm running Ubuntu 21.10 (5.13.0.19 Linux kernel) on a Dell Inspiron 5515 with 16GB RAM, 5000 AMD processor and 1TB disk. I'm using an Intel wi-fi 6 ax200 network wireless card.
When using WiFi, The Activity Monitor shows CPU surges to 100%. If I run 'top' in Linux terminal to see all processes, I find a "kworker" file that maxes CPU usage in 60 second intervals. Eventually the WiFi cuts out and/or all other programs will freeze. When I plug in the Ethernet cable, the kworker does not use much CPU, if any. The computer does not freeze.
I had the same problem with Ubuntu 20.04, 21.04 and in a live session of Linux Mint I ran "just to see." The Mint session showed similar kworker and a line called "Cinnamon" surging the CPU use.
My sense based on reading Ubuntu chat boards is that this is about a network driver trying to talk to the computer and failing. Either way, does anyone know how to address or stop this?
At the suggestion of others, I ran Linux command 'journalctl' and got the following info:
Thanks in advance.
Sep 18 07:03:24 atrillo-Inspiron-5515 kernel: Linux version 5.11.0-34-generic (buildd@lgw01-amd64-001) (gcc (Ubuntu 9.3.0-17ubuntu1~20.04) 9.> Sep 18 07:03:24 atrillo-Inspiron-5515 kernel: Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.11.0-34-generic root=UUID=96fbaf89-e1fd-45e6-94ca-9f72> Sep 18 07:03:24 atrillo-Inspiron-5515 kernel: KERNEL supported cpus: Sep 18 07:03:24 atrillo-Inspiron-5515 kernel: Intel GenuineIntel Sep 18 07:03:24 atrillo-Inspiron-5515 kernel: AMD AuthenticAMD Sep 18 07:03:24 atrillo-Inspiron-5515 kernel: Hygon HygonGenuine Sep 18 07:03:24 atrillo-Inspiron-5515 kernel: Centaur CentaurHauls Sep 18 07:03:24 atrillo-Inspiron-5515 kernel: zhaoxin Shanghai Sep 18 07:03:24 atrillo-Inspiron-5515 kernel: x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x001: 'x87 floating point registers' Sep 18 07:03:24 atrillo-Inspiron-5515 kernel: x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x002: 'SSE registers' Sep 18 07:03:24 atrillo-Inspiron-5515 kernel: x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x004: 'AVX registers' Sep 18 07:03:24 atrillo-Inspiron-5515 kernel: x86/fpu: xstate_offset[2]: 576, xstate_sizes[2]: 256 Sep 18 07:03:24 atrillo-Inspiron-5515 kernel: x86/fpu: Enabled xstate features 0x7, context size is 832 bytes, using 'compacted' format. Sep 18 07:03:24 atrillo-Inspiron-5515 kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map: Sep 18 07:03:24 atrillo-Inspiron-5515 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000009efff] usable Sep 18 07:03:24 atrillo-Inspiron-5515 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000009f000-0x00000000000bffff] reserved Sep 18 07:03:24 atrillo-Inspiron-5515 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x00000000099fffff] usable Sep 18 07:03:24 atrillo-Inspiron-5515 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000009a00000-0x0000000009dfffff] reserved Sep 18 07:03:24 atrillo-Inspiron-5515 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000009e00000-0x0000000009efffff] usable Sep 18 07:03:24 atrillo-Inspiron-5515 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000009f00000-0x0000000009f0efff] ACPI NVS Sep 18 07:03:24 atrillo-Inspiron-5515 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000009f0f000-0x00000000ab798fff] usable Sep 18 07:03:24 atrillo-Inspiron-5515 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000ab799000-0x00000000ac998fff] reserved lines 1-23