thermald

SYNOPSIS
       thermald  [ OPTIONS ]


DESCRIPTION
       thermald  is  a  Linux  daemon used to prevent the overheating of plat-
       forms. This daemon monitors temperature and applies compensation  using
       available cooling methods.

       By  default,  it  monitors  CPU temperature using available CPU digital
       temperature sensors and maintains CPU temperature under control, before
       HW takes aggressive correction action.

       Thermal daemon looks for thermal sensors and thermal cooling drivers in
       the Linux thermal sysfs (/sys/class/thermal) and builds a list of  sen-
       sors and cooling drivers. Each of the thermal sensors can optionally be
       binded to a cooling drivers by the in kernel drivers. In this case  the
       Linux  kernel  thermal core can directly take actions based on the tem-
       perature trip points, for each sensor and  associated  cooling  device.
       For  example a trip temperature X in a sensor can be associates a cool-
       ing driver Y. So when the sensor temperature = X,  the  cooling  driver
       "Y" is activated.

       Thermal  daemon allows to change this relationship or add new one via a
       thermal configuration file (thermal-conf.xml). This file  is  automati-
       cally  created  and used, if the platform has ACPI thermal relationship
       table. If not this needs to be manually configured.

       When there is a sensor, which has no associate cooling device, via con-
       figuration  file  or  thermal  relationship  table, then this sensor is
       tested for relationship with CPU  load  dynamically  up  to  maximum  3
       times. If there is no relationship, then it is added to a black list of
       unbinded sensors and not tried again.

       Optionally thermal daemon can act as an exclusive thermal controller by
       using  thermal sysfs and acting as a user space governor.  In this case
       kernel thermal core is not active and decision is taken by thermal dae-
       mon only.


OPTIONS
       -h, --help
              Show help options.

       --version
              Print thermald version and exit.

       --no-daemon
              Don't become a daemon: Default is daemon mode.

       --loglevel=info
              log severity: info level and up.

       --exclusive-control
              Act as exclusive thermal controller. This  will  use  user-space
              governor for thermal sysfs and take over control.


SEE ALSO
       thermal-conf.xml(5)



                                  8 May 2013                       thermald(8)