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HeatShield vs trickle - Userland Bandwidth Shaper

A side-by-side look at HeatShield and trickle - Userland Bandwidth Shaper. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

HeatShield

HeatShield

System & Hardware

HeatShield is a GPU monitoring software that provides real-time insight into your graphics card's temperature, fan speeds, clock speeds, and usage. It helps prevent overheating and thermal throttling.

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trickle - Userland Bandwidth Shaper

trickle - Userland Bandwidth Shaper

Network & Admin

Trickle is a userspace bandwidth shaper for Linux. It allows limiting the bandwidth used by a process, group of processes, or network interface. It's useful for rate-limiting backups, downloads, etc to prevent using all available bandwidth.

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