From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan at linux.intel.com>
To: powertop@lists.01.org
Subject: Re: [Powertop] How does powertop deal with multiple executions
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 19:20:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <526F1B6E.4080000@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 526EF543.3000503@gmail.com
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On 10/28/2013 4:37 PM, Jesús Díaz Vico wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to estimate the power consumption (besides some other properties) of a custom program. During my tests, I execute my program several times (it is not a
> background process) with powertop running. My doubt is: how does powertop deal with these multiple executions?
>
> I'd guess that it averages over the number of executions, because I'm obtaining very similar power consumption measurements for both 500 and 5000 executions of my program
> (335 mW and 364 mW, respectively). Still, there is the possibility that powertop only keeps the estimation corresponding to the last execution...
>
> Thanks.
by default, powertop will group programs with the same name into one bucket for display purposes.
next reply other threads:[~2013-10-29 2:20 UTC|newest]
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2013-10-29 2:20 Arjan van de Ven [this message]
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2013-10-29 15:39 [Powertop] How does powertop deal with multiple executions
2013-10-29 15:31 Arjan van de Ven
2013-10-29 7:23
2013-10-28 23:37
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