I think it is the expected behaviour of the "ondemand" governor used by Ubuntu to manage cpu frequency by default.
If you want to use another policy, you should probably have a look at cpufrequtils package. -- acpi-cpufreq does not recognize all frequencies for E8500 CPU https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/286133 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs