I have been experiencing something with very similar symptoms to this on
a Dell Latitude E6410 laptop with Ubuntu 12.04.  Looking in
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq showed that the CPU frequencies
were always stuck at just under half what they could do, no matter the
load.  After finding this ticket I installed cpufrequtils, to get more
readable output, with the immediate result that the CPU frequencies
started behaving sensibly!  I presume that init scripts which come with
that package, including the one to load relevant CPU frequency-related
kernel modules have something to do with it, but I am somewhat
surprised, given the impressive effect that installing the package had,
that it isn't installed by default.  Does anyone else know something
here that I don't?

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  [maverick] CPU frequency does not scale up unless all cores are in use

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