powertop(8) - Linux man page
Name
powertop - program to analyze power consumption on Intel-based laptops
Synopsis
powertop [-d] [-t DOUBLE ] [-p] [-h] [-v]
Description
powertop is a program that shows the power consumption on Intel-based laptops and makes suggestions on how to extend battery lifetime.
Options
-d, --dump
- read wakeups once and print list of top offenders.
- -t, --time=DOUBLE
- default time to gather data in seconds.
- -p, --pids
- show pids in wakeups list.
- -h, --help
- show the help message.
- -v, --version
- show version information and exit.
Bugs
Send bug reports to <power@bughost.org>
See Also
The program is more fully described at http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/
Author
powertop was written by Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>, and is maintained by Auke Kok <auke@linux.intel.com>.