Powertop

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powertop

https://01.org/powertop/
battery life optimization on portable computers

PowerTOP is a Linux tool to diagnose issues with power consumption and power management.

In addition to being a diagnostic tool, PowerTOP also has an interactive mode where the user can experiment various power management settings for cases where the Linux distribution has not enabled these settings.





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License

GPLv2




Leaders and contributors

Resources and communication

AudienceResource typeURI
Debian (Ref)https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/powertop
Python (Ref)https://pypi.org/project/powertop


Software prerequisites

KindDescription
Required to buildGCC, G++, glibc/pthreadsi, autoconf, automake, and libtool, etc (build-essential in Trisquel)
Source requirementlinux/linux-libre 2.6.38 or higher
Required to buildlibn1
Required to buildncurses




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