Powertop is a tool to diagnose issues with power consumption and power management to help set power saving settings.
Installation
Arch Linux:
sudo pacman -S powertop
Debian based (Ubuntu, Mint, Raspbian ..etc):
add-apt-repository ppa:eugenesan/ppa
apt-get update
apt-get install powertop -y
PowerTOP has been installed, you can use the following command to know more about it.
powertop --help
Profile battery usages
Following command will generate the HTML file called powerreport.html Open the report in your favorite web browser.
sudo powertop --html=powerreport.html
Tuning
sudo powertop
The Tuning tab of the report shows the actual parameters suggested by the tool to apply to save power
For more information: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/powertop
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Top comments (2)
beautfiul article. Simple and effective. Is there something like this combined with top that you can check memory consumption by MB instead of KB?
Thanks for feedback.
top -M MCommand lists process by MB.