Measure power consumption?

[steve]

Hi,

On 10/26/2009 04:32 PM, Aioanei Rares wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Was wondering if any of you know about a tool to measure the number of
> watts drained by a machine. Trying to make my machine as power-efficient
> as can be.
>
Besides all the hardware recommendations to measure power consumption of the 
system as a whole, you might also be interested in trying out powertop[1] to see 
(and possibly tune) where actually the power is being utilized (for instance, 
during an idle state).

cheers,
- steve

[1] http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/

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