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HowFlow — Calculate which programs on your laptop need most of your CPU time. With this information you can extend the batterytime of your laptop

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lied 8 months ago

Intel has developed a Tool called "PowerTOP":http://www.linuxpowertop.org/

This tool look for all processes and how often they are called by the kernel. So you so easily which programs should be stopped while you are on batterypower. A nice feature of PowerTop is that it show you tricks how to tune your system for better perfomance. h1.Building First install the program with downloading "here":http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/download.php

tar -zxf powertop-1.9.tar.gz
cd powertop-1.9
make
make install

(often you can install the tool with your distritools)

Usage

Just type

powertop

. The Programs wait a while until it has enough data to display and shows up with a processtable.

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