Dear Johannes,
On the Dell Latitude E7250 with Debian Sid/unstable and Linux 5.6.7,
running `powertop`, `psi_avgs_work` shows up there with 40 mW to 60 mW.
> The battery reports a discharge rate of 7.16 W
> The power consumed was 147 J
> The estimated remaining time is 1 hours, 31 minutes
>
> Summary: 795.2 wakeups/second, 0.0 GPU ops/seconds, 0.0 VFS ops/sec and 16.8% CPU use
>
> Power est. Usage Events/s Category Description
> 2.62 W 5.5 ms/s 328.9 Timer tick_sched_timer
> 817 mW 21.9 ms/s 99.9 Process [PID 519673] firefox
> 521 mW 3.2 ms/s 65.1 Process [PID 519710] firefox
> 270 mW 1.9 ms/s 33.8 Timer hrtimer_wakeup
> 261 mW 0.4 pkts/s Device Network interface: eno1 (e1000e)
> 162 mW 4.7 ms/s 19.8 Process [PID 520008] /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc
> 156 mW 4.0 ms/s 19.1 Process [PID 519728] firefox
> 146 mW 16.0 ms/s 16.4 Process [PID 72917] /usr/bin/gnome-shell
> 125 mW 5.8 ms/s 15.0 Process [PID 518973] /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird
> 121 mW 160.7 us/s 15.2 Process [PID 11] [rcu_sched]
> 117 mW 5.2 ms/s 14.1 Process [PID 520003] /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc
> 100 mW 100.0% Device USB device: Fujitsu Keyboard (Fujitsu)
> 100 mW 100.0% Device USB device: Jolla (Jolla)
> 100 mW 0.0% Device Display backlight
> 100 mW 100.0% Device USB device: USB Optical Mouse (Logitech)
> 95.4 mW 605.7 us/s 11.9 Process [PID 519018] /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird
> 91.3 mW 4.0 ms/s 11.0 Process [PID 519906] /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc
> 84.9 mW 45.2 ms/s 5.0 kWork intel_atomic_commit_work
> 80.1 mW 1.1 ms/s 9.9 Interrupt [0] HI_SOFTIRQ
> 76.6 mW 30.1 us/s 9.6 kWork kfree_rcu_monitor
> 75.8 mW 58.0 us/s 9.5 kWork kfree_rcu_work
> 74.5 mW 269.4 us/s 9.3 kWork engine_retire
> 62.5 mW 1.7 ms/s 7.6 Process [PID 73223] ibus-daemon --panel disable -r --xim
> 59.6 mW 73.5 us/s 7.5 kWork psi_avgs_work
> 56.9 mW 8.1 ms/s 6.1 Process [PID 72956] /usr/bin/Xwayland :0 -rootless -norese
> 54.7 mW 4.7 ms/s 6.3 Interrupt [7] sched(softirq)
> 54.0 mW 32.1 us/s 6.8 Timer intel_uncore_fw_release_timer
> […]
Is that expected to show? I guess due to the granularity it is?
Kind regards,
Paul