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Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook

You're reading from   Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook Do amazing things with the shell and automate tedious tasks

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
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ISBN-13 9781785881985
Length 552 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
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Preface
1. Shell Something Out FREE CHAPTER 2. Have a Good Command 3. File In, File Out 4. Texting and Driving 5. Tangled Web? Not At All! 6. Repository Management 7. The Backup Plan 8. The Old-Boy Network 9. Put On the Monitors Cap 10. Administration Calls 11. Tracing the Clues 12. Tuning a Linux System 13. Containers, Virtual Machines, and the Cloud

Measuring and optimizing power usage


Battery capacity is a critical resource on mobile devices, such as notebook computers and tablets. Linux provides tools that measure power consumption, one such command is powertop.

Getting ready

The powertop application doesn't come preinstalled with many Linux distributions, you will have to install it using your package manager.

How to do it...

The powertop application measures per-module power consumption and supports interactively optimizing power consumption:

With no options, powertop presents a display on the terminal:

# powertop

The powertop command takes measurements and displays detailed information about power usage, the processes using the most power, and so on:

PowerTOP 2.3  Overview  Idle stats  Frequency stats  Device stats  Tunable

Summary: 1146.1 wakeups/sec,  0.0 GPU ops/secs, 0.0 VFS ops/sec and 73.0% C

Usage Events/s Category Description
407.4 ms/s 258.7 Process /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware
64.8 ms/s 313.8 Process /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox...
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