POWERTOP(8) powertop manual POWERTOP(8)

powertop - program to analyze power consumption on Intel-based laptops

powertop [-d] [-t DOUBLE ] [-p] [-h] [-v]

powertop is a program that shows the power consumption on Intel-based laptops and makes suggestions on how to extend battery lifetime.


read wakeups once and print list of top offenders.

default time to gather data in seconds.

show pids in wakeups list.

show the help message.

show version information and exit.

Send bug reports to <power@bughost.org>

The program is more fully described at http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/

powertop was written by Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>, and is maintained by Auke Kok <auke@linux.intel.com>.

September 2, 2009 Linux