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powertop
2.15
About: PowerTOP is a tool to diagnose issues with power consumption and power management. It also has an interactive mode where the user can experiment various power management settings.
 Fossies Dox: powertop-2.15.tar.gz ("unofficial" and yet experimental doxygen-generated source code documentation)  |
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.
PowerTOP is coded in C++. It was written for Linux-based operating
systems. GNU* libc (glibc) and Linux pthreads
are needed for PowerTOP to function properly. The GNU build system
(autoconf, automake, make,
libtool), as well as gettext, are required to
build PowerTOP.
In addition, PowerTOP requires the following:
ncurses-devel (required)libnl-devel (required)pciutils-devel (is only required if you have PCI)autoconf-archive (for building)Example packages to install in Ubuntu*:
sudo apt install libpci-dev libnl-3-dev libnl-genl-3-dev gettext \
libgettextpo-dev autopoint gettext libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev libtool-bin \
dh-autoreconf autoconf-archive pkg-configThe autogen.sh script needs to be run only once to
generate configure. You need to re-run it only if the build
system configuration files (e.g. configure.ac) are
modified. The remaining steps are required whenever source files are
modified.
To build PowerTOP from the cloned source, use the following commands:
./autogen.sh
./configure
makeThe following sections go over basic operation of PowerTOP. This
includes kernel configuration options (or kernel patches) needed for
full functionality. Run powertop --help to see all
options.
PowerTOP needs some kernel config options enabled to function properly. As of linux-3.3.0, these are (the list probably is incomplete):
CONFIG_NO_HZ
CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS
CONFIG_HPET_TIMER
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_ONDEMAND
CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND
CONFIG_SND_AC97_POWER_SAVE
CONFIG_TIMER_STATS
CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS
CONFIG_PERF_COUNTERS
CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS
CONFIG_TRACING
CONFIG_EVENT_POWER_TRACING_DEPRECATED
CONFIG_X86_MSR
ACPI_PROCFS_POWER
CONFIG_DEBUG_FSUse these configs from linux-3.13.rc1:
CONFIG_POWERCAP
CONFIG_INTEL_RAPLThe patches in the patches/ sub-directory are optional
but enable full PowerTOP functionality.
When PowerTOP is executed as root and without arguments, it runs in
interactive mode. In this mode, PowerTOP most resembles
top.
For generating reports, or for filing functional bug reports, there
are two output modes: CSV and HTML. You can set sample times, the number
of iterations, a workload over which to run PowerTOP, and whether to
include debug-level output.
For an HTML report, execute PowerTOP with this option:
powertop --html=report.htmlThis creates a static report.html file, suitable for
sharing.
For a CSV report, execute PowerTOP with this option:
powertop --csv=report.csvThis creates a static powertop.csv file, also suitable
for sharing.
If you wish to file a functional bug report, generate and share a
debug-mode HTML report and share it, using the following
command:
powertop --debug --html=report.htmlImportant Note: As PowerTOP is intended for
privileged (root) use, your reports-- especially when run
with --debug-- will contain verbose system information.
PowerTOP does not sanitize, scrub, or otherwise
anonymize its reports. Be mindful of this when sharing reports.
Developers: If you make changes to the HTML reporting code, validate HTML output by using the W3C* Markup Validation Service and the W3C CSS Validation Service:
PowerTOP, when running on battery, tracks power consumption and activity on the system. Once there are sufficient measurements, PowerTOP can start to report power estimates for various activities. You can help increase the accuracy of the estimation by running a calibration cycle at least once:
powertop --calibrateCalibration entails cycling through various display brightness levels (including "off"), USB device activities, and other workloads.
Our analysis teams use the Extech* Power Analyzer/Datalogger (model number 380803). PowerTOP supports this device over the serial cable by passing the device node on the command line using this command:
powertop --extech=/dev/ttyUSB0(where ttyUSB0 is the devicenode of the serial-to-usb adapter on our system)
There are numerous ways you and your friends can contribute to
PowerTOP. See the CONTRIBUTE.md document for more details.
Elevator summary: "fork, and send PRs!".
We have a mailing list: powertop@lists.01.org:
If you find bugs, you can file an issue-- see
CONTRIBUTE.md for further details:
PowerTOP contains some code from other open source projects; we'd like to thank the authors of those projects for their work. Specifically, PowerTOP contains code from
Parse Event Library - Copyright 2009, 2010 Red Hat Inc Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
nl80211 userspace tool - Copyright 2007, 2008 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>PowerTOP
Copyright (C) 2020 Intel Corporation
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; version 2.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USASee COPYING file for a copy of the aforementioned
(GPLv2) license.
/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
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