powertop(1)

powertop1

Program to analyze power consumption on intel-based laptops

Usage

powertop

Overview

This manual page documents briefly the powertop commands. powertop is a program that shows the power consumption on Intel-based laptops and makes suggestions on how to extend battery lifetime. The program is more fully described at http://www.linuxpowertop.org

Releases

Unchanged in 2 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny).

  1. 5.0–6.0

Author

powertop was written by Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>. This manual page was written by Carlo Segre <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

From powertop 1.11-1+squeeze1 in Debian 6.0 (Squeeze). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.