I have an annoying problem with power usage going up inexplicably after deep suspension or hibernation, and powertop is the first thing I looked at to understand what sucks up energy. Unfortunately, when I experience the battery drain described in the other thread I notice that what powertop measures from specific processes and devices is not compatible with the total amount of energy consumption reported by the battery. That is, the processes seem to use ~10W (which is what I get after a normal boot), but the battery is draining much faster and I can’t see why.
PowerTOP 2.13 Overview Idle stats Frequency stats Device stats Tunables WakeUp
The battery reports a discharge rate of 23.9 W
The energy consumed was 535 J
The estimated remaining time is 3 hours, 3 minutes
Summary: 1829,5 wakeups/second, 0,0 GPU ops/seconds, 0,0 VFS ops/sec and 68,6% CPU use
Power est. Usage Events/s Category Description
4.97 W 5,3 pkts/s Device Network interface: wlp59s0 (iwlwifi)
3.33 W 25,8% Device Display backlight
1.83 W 100,8 ms/s 272,1 Process [PID 1590] /usr/bin/gnome-shell
1.52 W 5,9 ms/s 365,3 Timer tick_sched_timer
778 mW 66,0 ms/s 99,7 Process [PID 2001] /opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin --type=gpu-process --field-trial-handle=16919430837198754013,6589440795077449781,131072 --g
703 mW 105,0 ms/s 69,9 Process [PID 1506] /usr/lib/Xorg vt2 -displayfd 3 -auth /run/user/1000/gdm/Xauthority -nolisten tcp -background none -noreset -keeptty
592 mW 80,0 ms/s 66,9 Process [PID 2303] /opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin --type=renderer --force-color-profile=srgb --field-trial-handle=16919430837198754013,658944
558 mW 0,0 pkts/s Device nic:virbr0
551 mW 66,8 ms/s 59,0 Process [PID 7515] gthumb
451 mW 37,3 ms/s 62,1 Process [PID 5788] /usr/bin/nautilus --gapplication-service
416 mW 28,7 ms/s 73,7 Process [PID 2337] /opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin --type=renderer --force-color-profile=srgb --field-trial-handle=16919430837198754013,658944
413 mW 639,8 µs/s 100,0 Interrupt [17] idma64.1
381 mW 34,2 ms/s 59,8 Process [PID 2043] /opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin --type=gpu-process --field-trial-handle=16919430837198754013,6589440795077449781,131072 --g
301 mW 16,9 ms/s 55,3 Process [PID 1968] /opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin --new-window
270 mW 8,3 ms/s 57,8 Process [PID 2331] /opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin --type=renderer --force-color-profile=srgb --field-trial-handle=16919430837198754013,658944
179 mW 8,4 ms/s 35,6 Process [PID 2042] /opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin --type=gpu-process --field-trial-handle=16919430837198754013,6589440795077449781,131072 --g
151 mW 660,3 µs/s 36,1 Process [PID 14] [rcu_preempt]
110 mW 3,6 ms/s 23,4 kWork __i915_gem_free_work
107 mW 3,7 ms/s 22,4 kWork engine_retire
104 mW 6,3 ms/s 19,2 Process [PID 2010] /opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin --type=utility --utility-sub-type=network.mojom.NetworkService --field-trial-handle=1691943
103 mW 2,6 ms/s 22,5 Process [PID 4909] alacritty
103 mW 282,9 µs/s 24,8 kWork rps_work
102 mW 115,0 µs/s 24,8 kWork kfree_rcu_monitor
94.0 mW 4,1 ms/s 18,9 kWork intel_atomic_commit_work
89.5 mW 1,9 ms/s 20,0 Process [PID 2414] alacritty
88.4 mW 0,8 ms/s 15,4 Process [PID 507] [irq/51-SYNA2393]
83.9 mW 180,0 µs/s 20,3 kWork kfree_rcu_work
78.6 mW 334,4 µs/s 18,8 kWork intel_atomic_cleanup_work
66.5 mW 232,0 µs/s 16,0 Timer intel_uncore_fw_release_timer
63.5 mW 1,0 ms/s 14,5 Process [PID 7517] gdbus
61.8 mW 1,2 ms/s 13,9 Interrupt [0] HI_SOFTIRQ
51.5 mW 11,8 ms/s 1,2 Process [PID 7524] pool-gthumb
50.5 mW 4,9 ms/s 7,5 kWork __intel_wakeref_put_work
45.3 mW 690,9 µs/s 10,4 Interrupt [178] i915
41.4 mW 9,1 ms/s 1,3 kWork delayed_fput
38.1 mW 117,4 µs/s 9,2 kWork psi_avgs_work
34.8 mW 4,7 ms/s 4,0 Process [PID 2213] /opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin --type=renderer --force-color-profile=srgb --field-trial-handle=16919430837198754013,658944
32.2 mW 4,5 ms/s 3,5 Process [PID 879] /usr/bin/thermald --systemd --dbus-enable --adaptive
31.8 mW 3,4 ms/s 4,5 Process [PID 2061] /opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin --type=renderer --force-color-profile=srgb --field-trial-handle=16919430837198754013,658944
31.8 mW 1,7 ms/s 6,1 Process [PID 2271] /opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin --type=renderer --force-color-profile=srgb --field-trial-handle=16919430837198754013,658944
29.5 mW 1,8 ms/s 5,5 Timer hrtimer_wakeup
26.3 mW 1,0 ms/s 5,4 Process [PID 2064] /opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin --type=renderer --force-color-profile=srgb --field-trial-handle=16919430837198754013,658944
24.8 mW 6,3 ms/s 0,00 Process [PID 7529] asynctask
20.8 mW 85,8 µs/s 5,0 kWork gc_worker
20.6 mW 4,5 ms/s 0,7 Interrupt [7] sched(softirq)
Based on your experience, what processes could use battery and not be picked up by powertop?
