I need to cap CPU usage on Arch, at least for a few more weeks

[FlpDaMattress]

As the title says, My Dell Inspiron 5577 Gaming from 2017 is on it's last leg. It's on it's 5th battery, it rejected the last one after only a few weeks. It's lived on a charger for months but now it's only getting worse and instantly dies if I peg the CPU for too long. I daily drive EndeavorOS, How can I cap my CPU to like 60% until I can get money for a suitable replacement. I'm thinking a Thinkpad P1 gen 3 or X1 Extreme.

[PDifolco]

Through Windows power plan, you can cap the CPU % to whatever you want

[xAcid9]

3 hours ago, FlpDaMattress said:

As the title says, My Dell Inspiron 5577 Gaming from 2017 is on it's last leg. It's on it's 5th battery, it rejected the last one after only a few weeks. It's lived on a charger for months but now it's only getting worse and instantly dies if I peg the CPU for too long. I daily drive EndeavorOS, How can I cap my CPU to like 60% until I can get money for a suitable replacement. I'm thinking a Thinkpad P1 gen 3 or X1 Extreme.

You can try cpupower-gui in AUR or few other alternatives according to Arch wiki.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CPU_frequency_scaling

[FlpDaMattress]

15 hours ago, xAcid9 said:

You can try cpupower-gui in AUR or few other alternatives according to Arch wiki.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CPU_frequency_scaling

This seems to be exactly what I need, but sadly isn't helping one bit. Still marked as solved

 

17 hours ago, PDifolco said:

Through Windows power plan

Thanks but I actively avoid running Windows or any Microsoft products.

[xAcid9]

1 hour ago, FlpDaMattress said:

This seems to be exactly what I need, but sadly isn't helping one bit. Still marked as solved

If it's not thermal related shutdown, have you try running the laptop w/o battery?

[FlpDaMattress]

10 minutes ago, xAcid9 said:

If it's not thermal related shutdown, have you try running the laptop w/o battery?

Won't post without one, It's not thermal, but Dell didn't use threadlocker so screws kept backing out... So I used some of my own and nah this poor thing is never coming apart again.