Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Calculating power consumption of a running program?

2017-08-23 Thread R0b0t1
On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 5:49 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 24/08/2017 00:29, R0b0t1 wrote: >> As an example, I am interested in characterizing the power consumption >> of rendering a PDF document. I would hopefully only need to run the >> renderer once. >> >> I can use

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Calculating power consumption of a running program?

2017-08-23 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 05:29:13PM -0500, R0b0t1 wrote: > As an example, I am interested in characterizing the power consumption > of rendering a PDF document. I would hopefully only need to run the > renderer once. I remember in college some interesting work in security-related stuff that was

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Calculating power consumption of a running program?

2017-08-23 Thread Poison BL.
On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 7:07 PM, Poison BL. wrote: > On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 6:29 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: > >> As an example, I am interested in characterizing the power consumption >> of rendering a PDF document. I would hopefully only need to run the >>

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Calculating power consumption of a running program?

2017-08-23 Thread Poison BL.
On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 6:29 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: > As an example, I am interested in characterizing the power consumption > of rendering a PDF document. I would hopefully only need to run the > renderer once. The catch with that goal is that a) rendering a PDF is likely as much

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Calculating power consumption of a running program?

2017-08-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 24/08/2017 00:29, R0b0t1 wrote: > As an example, I am interested in characterizing the power consumption > of rendering a PDF document. I would hopefully only need to run the > renderer once. > > I can use PowerTOP, but it seems to be limited to rough measurements > on the order of tenths of a