1. NAME

powertop - program to analyze power consumption on Intel-based laptops

2. SYNOPSIS

powertop

3. DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the

powertop commands.

powertop is a program that shows the power consumption on Intel-based laptops and makes suggestions on how to extend battery lifetime.
The program is more fully described at http://www.linuxpowertop.org

4. AUTHOR

powertop was written by Arjan van de Ven <>.

This manual page was written by Carlo Segre <>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).