tldr/pages/linux/powerstat.md

powerstat

Measures the power consumption of a computer that has a battery power source or supports the RAPL interface. More information: https://manned.org/powerstat.

• Measure power with the default of 10 samples with an interval of 10 seconds:

powerstat

• Measure power with custom number of samples and interval duration:

powerstat {{interval}} {{number_of_samples}}

• Measure power using Intel's RAPL interface:

powerstat -R {{interval}} {{number_of_samples}}

• Show a histogram of the power measurements:

powerstat -H {{interval}} {{number_of_samples}}

• Enable all statistics gathering options:

powerstat -a {{interval}} {{number_of_samples}}