Comment 59 for bug 177895

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Colin Ian King (colin-king) wrote :

Oh.. one more thing to add:

When running PowerTop, be sure to give it several minutes run-in before believing the power consumption figures. I've noticed it only seems to give me believable power consumption figures after about 10 minutes of use - its first estimates are quite wildly out but get better over time - in a kind of asymptotic manner.