Re: [Powertop] not getting the power consumption numbers

[Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky at gmail.com>]

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On (07/07/14 23:10), rahul shrivastava wrote:
>    Hi Sergey,
> 
>    I am running powertop without any argument. According to your mail,
>    powertop starts estimation after running it 3 times the number of
>    parameters.

parameters are meant as internal powertop data, not user supplied
arguments. start powertop, unplug your laptop (leave it on battery) and
give powertop enough time (it may make sense to decrease powertop
refresh time: press s button and set, say, to 3 sec).

	-ss

>    I have run it almost 6 7 times, but yet I am not getting power
>    figures. Could you please help me out here
> 
>    Regards
>    Rahul
> 
>    On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Sergey Senozhatsky
>    <[1]sergey.senozhatsky(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>      On (07/04/14 10:19), rahul shrivastava wrote:
>      > Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 10:19:24 +0530
>      > From: rahul shrivastava <[2]rshrivastava2(a)gmail.com>
>      > To: [3]powertop(a)lists.01.org
>      > Subject: [Powertop] not getting the power consumption numbers
>      >
>      >    Hi,
>      >    While installing version 2.6.1, I got the following error - 
>      >    make[2]: Entering directory
>      `/home/rahul/powertop/powertop-2.6.1/src'
>      >    /bin/bash ./csstoh.sh powertop.css css.h
>      >    /bin/bash: ./csstoh.sh: No such file or directory
> 
>      should be fixed by now, not sure if the fix is already included into
>      tarball, though.
>      >    So I installed version 2.5 and it compiled correctly. But, I am not
>      >    getting the power consumption numbers. What I am getting is this
>      >                   Usage       Events/s    Category       Description
>      >                 66.7 us/s      26.5        Process        [rcu_sched]
>      >                152.8 us/s      18.7        Interrupt      [3]
>      net_rx(softirq)
>      >                 21.7 us/s      18.7        kWork          od_dbs_timer
>      >                367.6 us/s      11.8        Process      
>       avahi-daemon:
>      >    running [Ramanujan.local]
>      >                 33.6 us/s       9.8        Timer        
>       tick_sched_timer
>      >                  7.0 ms/s       2.0        Process        powertop
>      >                299.8 us/s       2.0        Process      
>      >     /usr/sbin/irqbalance
>      >                 50.3 us/s       2.0        Process      
>      >     /usr/lib/accountsservice/accounts-daemon
>      >                 39.7 us/s       2.0        Process        nmbd -D
>      >    I am not getting any "power estimation" field.
> 
>      please read
>      [4]https://lists.01.org/pipermail/powertop/2014-March/001256.html
> 
>              -ss
>      >    I am using ubuntu 12.04 with linux kernel version 3.11.0-24-generic
>      >    Could you please let me know what could be wrong.
>      >    Regards
>      >    Rahul
> 
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