[Novalug] PowerTop

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Nino Pereira <pereira at speakeasy.net> wrote:
>
>> http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/
>>
>> I'm just curious as to how many people are using this amazing utility?
>>
>> For those who don't know it is an application similar to the classic
>> unix 'top' command that shows what processes are using up CPU time.
>>
>
> This sounded so interesting that I immediately downloaded it. But,
> on trying to install, I get an error from the loader:

Just apt-get install powertop instead of trying to compile it.  It's
in Debian & Ubuntu's repos, and I would imagine other deb-based
distros' as well.

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