Review of: powertop

5/5 (minimum 1)

by drewp on 29 Apr 2008

I've tried this on laptops, but the interesting results came on my desktop. My cpu usage was low, but the load average was high. powertop listed some surprising processes that were waking up hundreds of times per second.

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powertop

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Tags: applications eco go-green green intel linux open-source power-management power-saving save-power software sysadmin tools utility
Homepage: http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/
See Also: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/11/365
Location: http://www.linux.com/feature/62091