Comment # 8 on bug 1205308 from Dirk Mueller

(In reply to Michael Hirmke from comment #7)

> Ok, this machine has an Intel cpu.
> What would be the advantage installing thermad additionally?

It orchestrates power management on the intel cpu family systems, which both
reduce power consumption as well as improve performance (because the CPU has
due to better power management more headroom to boost the cpu frequency when
needed)

the irqbalance integration makes it perform better irq balancing decisions than
without the interface with thermald.