Powertop
Purpose:: Measure Power Consumption
Website:: http://www.01.org/powertop
Source Code:: https://github.com/fenrus75/powertop
Known by:: Wolfgang β Building a Power Efficient Home Server
Description
PowerTOP is a Linux tool used to diagnose issues with power consumption and power management. In addition to being a diagnostic tool, PowerTOP also has an interactive mode you can use to experiment with various power management settings, for cases where the Linux distribution has not enabled those settings.
Notes
Usage on laptops
Laptops should run on battery power when running the powertop command.
Calibrate the power estimation engine:
sudo powertop --calibrate
Installation
sudo apt install powertop
Commands
Execute:
sudo powertop
CSV Output:
sudo powertop --csv=output.csv -t 20