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The Linux Thermal Daemon program from Intel Open Source Technology Center
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Thermald deals with thermal issues for Intel processor families
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codenamed Intel Sandy-Bridge and above. It is a Linux daemon
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used to prevent the overheating of systems. This daemon monitors
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temperature and applies compensation using available cooling methods.
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Since this is a daemon, it can be started at boot via /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
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/usr/sbin/thermald
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An entry could be added to /etc/rc.d/rc.local_shutdown as well:
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killall thermald
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Optional dependency: msr-tools
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To upgrade please remove thermal_daemon first and then install thermald.
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