# How to check Which Application is Draining Your Battery on Linux

 [Powertop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerTOP)  is a tool to diagnose issues with power consumption and power management to help set power saving settings.

### Installation
#### Arch Linux:

```
sudo pacman -S powertop
```

#### Debian based (Ubuntu, Mint, Raspbian ..etc):

```
add-apt-repository ppa:eugenesan/ppa
apt-get update
apt-get install powertop -y
```

PowerTOP has been installed, you can use the following command to know more about it.

```
powertop --help
```

### Profile battery usages
Following command will generate the HTML file called powerreport.html Open the report in your favorite web browser.

```
sudo powertop --html=powerreport.html
```

`powerreport.html` file will be stored on DIR where you are running this command.


![result.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1556126934031/gYALxkPr_.png)

### Tuning

```
sudo powertop
```

The **Tuning** tab of the report shows the actual parameters suggested by the tool to apply to save power

For more information:   [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/powertop](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/powertop)