POWERTOP(8)

📦 version 1.13, in ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble

👑 POWERTOP(8) — the powertop manual, bestie edition 💅

ok so. this is the manual page for powertop, section 8 of the powertop manual. it's giving "your laptop's battery is fighting for its life and this tool is the therapist" energy. let's go 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

powertop — the program that analyzes power consumption on Intel-based laptops 🔋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

powertop is a program that shows you the power consumption happening on Intel-based laptops, and then — like the supportive bestie it is — makes suggestions on how to extend your battery lifetime. no cap, it literally tells you who's draining you. 💀🔋

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -d, --dump — reads wakeups once and prints out the list of top offenders. one shot, no waiting, immediate tea ☕👀
  • -t, --time=DOUBLE — the default time to gather data, in seconds. it's a DOUBLE, so yes you can be extra precise about it 💅
  • -p, --pids — shows pids in the wakeups list. names are cute but pids are receipts 🔍
  • -h, --help — shows the help message. when in doubt, ask for help, queen 🫶
  • -v, --version — shows version information and exits. short, sweet, iconic ⭐

🙈 BUGS 🙈

found a bug? send those bug reports to <power@bughost.org> — they want the smoke fr fr 😭

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the program is more fully described at http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/ — go read, iykyk 🧚

💜 AUTHOR 💜

powertop was written by Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>, and is maintained by Auke Kok <auke@linux.intel.com>. two absolute legends, we stan 👑✨

and that's the whole page bestie!! every single option, email, url and caveat kept intact, just with 1000% more sparkle 🎀

that's a wrap on the powertop manual for Linux, dated Sep 2, 2009 — go forth and slay those wakeups 💅🔥

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