# fenrus75/powertop

The Linux PowerTOP tool  -- please post patches to the mailing list instead of using github pull requests

Repository: https://github.com/fenrus75/powertop
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/powertop
Homepage: http://www.01.org/powertop
Language: C++
License: GPL-2.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2026-08-18T17:15:53+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 87/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 65, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5356, "days_push": 15, "days_rel": 23, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1331, forks 142 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:24.376130+00:00)

## What it is
PowerTOP is a Linux command-line tool for diagnosing power consumption and power management issues, with an interactive top-like TUI for exploring CPU, device, and tunable stats. It can also auto-tune power settings and generate HTML or Markdown reports.

## Use cases
- diagnose why my laptop battery drains fast on linux
- find processes causing high cpu wakeups
- tune linux power management settings automatically
- generate an html power consumption report
- check cpu idle and frequency stats
- optimize power usage on a linux server

## When to choose
- you need to analyze or reduce power consumption on a Linux system
- you want an interactive TUI to explore power tunables and wakeups
- you need shareable HTML/Markdown power reports

## When to avoid
- you need power monitoring on macOS or Windows
- you want battery charge-cycle management rather than diagnostics
- you need a GUI dashboard

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: monitoring, benchmarking, developer-tools, terminal-ui
- domain: operating-systems, developer-tools, performance
- platform: cli
- tags: power-management, energy-efficiency, diagnostics, system-tuning, c++, linux

## Member repositories
- fenrus75/powertop (main) score 87

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:24.376130+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:45:15.878923+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/fenrus75/powertop (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:24.376130+00:00, sha 5bba20d19c27)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.