Ubuntu 18.04 drains battery very fast after wake up from a deep sleep
Short answer: It turned out to be a problem somewhere between kernel 4.15 and the touchpad.
Disabling the touchpad solved the problem:
sudo rmmod hid_multitouch
This is an acceptable workaround for me, since most of the time I use an external mouse. In rare cases, when I don't have a mouse at hand, I solve the problem by disabling + enabling the touchpad after waking up:
sudo rmmod hid_multitouch
sudo modprobe hid_multitouch
EDIT March 2020: Some time ago, I've realized that a moment of using the touchpad, after resuming the laptop also solves the problem.
Long answer
The top
command showed a low overall CPU usage (below 8%), but surprisingly the following command:
watch -n1 "cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep \"^[c]pu MHz\""
revealed that all CPU cores were running at the highest frequency (~3.8 GHz)!, while I was expecting to see the lowest possible frequency (0.8 GHz) due to the idle state. The sudo powertop
has proven that the high power consumption indeed was coming from the CPU.
So I came back to the results of the top
command, watched it closely, and one process looked suspicious: irq/51-SYNA2393:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
21874 root 20 0 0 0 0 I 2.0 0.0 0:03.18 kworker/0:0
1 root 20 0 225780 9392 6472 S 1.0 0.0 0:21.78 systemd
513 root -51 0 0 0 0 D 5.3 0.0 1:00.15 irq/51-SYNA2393
2673 greg 20 0 4569240 205392 73916 S 1.0 0.6 1:54.94 gnome-shell
...
The dmesg | grep SYNA
output:
[148428.423272] input: SYNA2393:00 06CB:7A13 Touchpad (...)
[148428.423893] hid-multitouch 0018:06CB:7A13.0001: input,hidraw1: I2C HID v1.00 Mouse [SYNA2393:00 06CB:7A13] on i2c-SYNA2393:00
revealed that IRQ 51 comes from the laptop touchpad. That's how I found the culprit.
To be honest, I'm not sure it it's a bug inside Linux kernel, or simply my touchpad is not top-notch supported. When I'll try a newer Ubuntu version with newer kernel I'll update this post.