powerstat – measures the power consumption of a laptop

Powerstat measures the power consumption of a laptop using the ACPI battery information.

The output is like vmstat but also shows power consumption statistics. At the end of a run, powerstat will calculate the average, standard deviation and min/max of the gathered data.

This is free and open source software.

Website: github.com/ColinIanKing/powerstat
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Developer: Colin Ian King
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

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powerstat is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.


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