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Watching Your Power Consumption With Powertop On Fedora 7

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Watching Your Power Consumption With Powertop On Fedora 7

Powertop
is a command-line tool released by Intel that shows you the power
consumption of the applications running on your system. It works best
on notebooks with Intel mobile processors and can help you find out the
programs that put a strain on your notebook battery. It requires kernel
2.6.21 or newer with tickless idle
enabled (CONFIG_NO_HZ) (which is currently available for 32-bit kernels
only). Fedora 7 comes with a 2.6.21 kernel by default, so we can use Powertop on it.

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