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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan at linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [Powertop] How does powertop deal with multiple executions
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 19:20:30 -0700
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On 10/28/2013 4:37 PM, Jes=C3=BAs D=C3=ADaz Vico wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to estimate the power consumption (besides some other properti=
es) of a custom program. During my tests, I execute my program several time=
s (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 obt=
aining very similar power consumption measurements for both 500 and 5000 ex=
ecutions of my program
> (335 mW and 364 mW, respectively). Still, there is the possibility that p=
owertop 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.



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