On 1/5/24 19:33, James Cook wrote:
On Thu, Jan 04, 2024 at 10:24:18PM +0100, Benjamin Stürz wrote:Hi ports@,this is my next little project, after sysutils/lsblk. apmtop is a simple utility for measuring power consumption and statistics related to it, in a little TUI interface. There is still some work to do, but I wanted to see if anyone would be interested in using/testing this project. Obviously, this is not (yet) commit-ready, so: Comments and Suggestions are _very_ welcome! WWW: https://got.stuerz.xyz/?action=summary&path=apmtop.git PS: The keybindings are in the README.md, until I write a man page. Happy new year, Benjamin StürzThanks, I tried it out on my laptop.
Thanks for trying.
The BAT and PWR displays always show 0% and 0mW respectively as far as I can tell. Note "apm -l" can show my batter percentage so I guess that at least should be possible to get right. dmesg below in case it's useful.
Now it's fixed.
I forgot to unveil("/dev/apm", "r").
See attached port.
CPU percentage is lower than what "top -1" shows. E.g. with"++$x while 1" running in a perl repl, top -1 shows 19% user but your tool shows about 10%. I don't know which is more accurate, so this isn't necessarily a complaint.
Try with a different delay, maybe the same one as top uses. Use `apmtop -d DELAY` with DELAY being measured in tenths of seconds. e.g. `apmtop -d 10` refreshes every second.
CPU frequency looks plausible. Temperature is at least changing (went from 32 C to 33 C); not sure if it's accurate.
I'll look into that.
Nice utility! Don't know if I'll use it since I like to squeeze such things into my status bar, but maybe I can learn from it. One annoyance: xterm flashes on every update as the TUI is redrawn, which is distracting when I'm trying to look at something else.
I too put these things into my status bar, but I wanted to have a nice graph, to make optimizing battery life a little easier.
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