Thermally adaptive quality-of-service

A non-transitory machine-readable medium having executable instructions to cause one or more processing units to perform a method to manage a thermal profile of a device, the method comprising:

• monitoring thermal level of the thermal profile of the device, wherein the device is executing a plurality of tasks that utilize a plurality of processing cores of the device;
• if the thermal level of the device exceeds a thermal threshold,
• identifying one of the plurality of tasks as a historically high energy consuming task, wherein the identifying is based on at least information about historical energy consumption from a database that tracks energy consumption from previously running tasks, and
• throttling the historically high energy consuming task by setting a force idle execution time for the historically high energy consuming task, wherein the force idle time is a percentage greater than zero and less than a hundred, wherein the force idle time percentage is set by the system according to the threshold exceeded;
• and
• executing the plurality of tasks.