GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 499724
Include tools for monitoring power usage
Last modified: 2018-05-22 12:02:19 UTC
System Monitor should include a GUI for powertop: http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/ At *least* the part of powertop which displays what programs are sapping the most energy, and ideally the part that allows control of power usage as well.
nowadays could be VERY useful to know how many Watts the system is using, even without integrating powertop. Could add a "Power tab" tab, integrating the now out of core gnome-power-utils and then suppress that package. After all energy consume is interesting dynamic data and it should have plain right to be displayed in system monitor. Note that the "System" tab is now obsoleted by System Info static data in System settings. What do you think?
*** Bug 661270 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #1) > > Note that the "System" tab is now obsoleted by System Info static data in > System settings. > Not sure how that is relevant for this bug. > What do you think? I'd be very happy to accept a well thought-out patch that implements this as I doubt I've got the time to do it myself.
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I think integrating the power statistics in System Monitor is sa good idea, but I'm not sure adding a whole new tab for it is worth it, I like the suggestion from bug #672516: "A power history graph could fit in the resources tab, and the wakeups/s could be shown in the process list"
*** Bug 672516 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The proper way of doing this seems to be using upower: * up_wakeups_get_total_sync to get the number of total wakeups per second, with this we can create a chart on the resources tab * up_wakeups_get_data_sync to get the per-process wakeups data, match to the existing process list using PID, and display the wakeups in a separate Wakeups column in the processes tree
*** Bug 769169 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 757762 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 780255 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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