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.