System throttled due to Over-current on Orin NX

Hi sorry.shao,

“System throttled due to Over-current” is a warning message, which would be caused from the following reasons:

  1. low voltage
  2. high average power
  3. high instant current

In your case, it seems the power is about 18.5W, so the Over-current (OC) event might be caused from high instant current.

You could also check details of current power status:
Jetson Power UI → Tab: Thermal/Power Monitor → Power Monitor (at bottom)

For the workaround, you could try the following instruction to apply a custom power mode.

1.) Modify power mode config 
$ sudo su
# vim /etc/nvpmodel.conf

Add the following content (which is derived from MAXN power config but constraint CPU frequency to 1190.4MHz) to the end of nvpmodel.conf
< POWER_MODEL ID=5 NAME=Custom >
CPU_ONLINE CORE_0 1
CPU_ONLINE CORE_1 1
CPU_ONLINE CORE_2 1
CPU_ONLINE CORE_3 1
CPU_ONLINE CORE_4 1
CPU_ONLINE CORE_5 1
FBP_POWER_GATING FBP_PG_MASK 2
TPC_POWER_GATING TPC_PG_MASK 240
GPU_POWER_CONTROL_ENABLE GPU_PWR_CNTL_EN on
CPU_A78_0 MIN_FREQ 729600
CPU_A78_0 MAX_FREQ 1190400
CPU_A78_1 MIN_FREQ 729600
CPU_A78_1 MAX_FREQ -1
GPU MIN_FREQ 0
GPU MAX_FREQ -1
GPU_POWER_CONTROL_DISABLE GPU_PWR_CNTL_DIS auto
EMC MAX_FREQ 0
DLA0_CORE MAX_FREQ -1
DLA1_CORE MAX_FREQ -1
DLA0_FALCON MAX_FREQ -1
DLA1_FALCON MAX_FREQ -1
PVA0_VPS MAX_FREQ -1
PVA0_AXI MAX_FREQ -1

2.) Apply the custom power mode (ID=5) and check the power mode status
# nvpmodel -m 5
# nvpmodel -q --verbose

3.) The status in Jetson Power UI
Check if the CPU frequency is limited to 1190.4MHz.

4.) Run your stress tests 

If the issue still persist, please help to provide the detailed steps of your stress test.