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powerstat — Measures the power consumption of a computer that has a battery power source or supports the RAPL in

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Problem

How to use the powerstat command: Measures the power consumption of a computer that has a battery power source or supports the RAPL interface. More information: <https://manned.org/powerstat>.

Solution

powerstat — Measures the power consumption of a computer that has a battery power source or supports the RAPL interface. More information: <https://manned.org/powerstat>.

Measure power with the default of 10 samples with an interval of 10 seconds:
powerstat


Measure power with custom number of samples and interval duration:
powerstat {{interval}} {{number_of_samples}}


Measure power using Intel's RAPL interface:
powerstat -R {{interval}} {{number_of_samples}}


Show a histogram of the power measurements:
powerstat -H {{interval}} {{number_of_samples}}


Enable all statistics gathering options:
powerstat -a {{interval}} {{number_of_samples}}

Code Snippets

Measure power with the default of 10 samples with an interval of 10 seconds

powerstat

Measure power with custom number of samples and interval duration

powerstat {{interval}} {{number_of_samples}}

Measure power using Intel's RAPL interface

powerstat -R {{interval}} {{number_of_samples}}

Show a histogram of the power measurements

powerstat -H {{interval}} {{number_of_samples}}

Enable all statistics gathering options

powerstat -a {{interval}} {{number_of_samples}}

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tldr-pages: linux/powerstat

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