fenrus75/powertop
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The Linux PowerTOP tool -- please post patches to the mailing list instead of using github pull requests
5 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 0 stories, 5 comments · first 2017-02-02 · latest 2026-07-04
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powertop to the rescue! https://github.com/fenrus75/powertop
comment by roryirvine · 2026-07-04 · in Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux (2019) -
…the article almost certainly was measuring from AC seeing as how it doesn't have a battery. [0] https://github.com/fenrus75/powertop/blob/master/src/measure...
comment by craftkiller · 2024-04-30 · in Raspberry Pi 5 vs. Intel N100 mini PC comparison -
…based on user behavior. What we have now seems somewhat unresponsive. It'd be fun to dive into. https://github.com/fenrus75/powertop/pull/116
comment by rektide · 2023-03-04 · in ARM64 Linux Workstation -
…2. Powertop can help pin down devices and the various settings to persist via udev rules - https://github.com/fenrus75/powertop 3. The arch wiki is always a great resource - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management 4. And…
comment by mattpallissard · 2022-12-18 · in Ask HN: Shuold I buy a new ThinkPad E14 with soldered RAM or a used T480? -
Generally a good place to start would be powertop[1] 1: https://github.com/fenrus75/powertop (my memory is it's in the Ubuntu repos so you should be able to apt install it) it has an "I'm feeling lucky" flag, > powertop --auto-tune which…
comment by blacksmith_tb · 2017-02-02 · in Ask HN: Better efficiency in laptops running Linux?