How to Install powertop in Ubuntu 18.04



Install powertop by entering the following commands in the terminal:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install powertop

Description:

diagnose issues with power consumption and management

PowerTOP is a Linux tool to diagnose issues with power consumption and power management. In addition to being a diagnostic tool, PowerTOP also has an interactive mode you can use to experiment with various power management settings, for cases where the Linux distribution has not enabled those settings. . PowerTOP reports which components in the system are most likely to blame for higher-than-needed power consumption, ranging from software applications to active components in the system. Detailed screens are available for CPU C and P states, device activity, and software activity.

Homepage: https://01.org/powertop/

Version: 2.9-0ubuntu1

Section: utils