From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080416 Fedora/2.0.0.14-1.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.14 Description of problem: Machine is a Dell Inspiron 1420. CPU clock wrongly detected: [root@localhost etc]# grep Hz /proc/cpuinfo model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5450 @ 1.66GHz cpu MHz : 1000.000 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5450 @ 1.66GHz cpu MHz : 1000.000 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.24.5-85.fc8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. grep Hz /proc/cpuinfo 2. 3. Actual Results: 1.66GHz CPU detected as 1GHz Expected Results: 1.66GHz CPU correctly detected Additional info:
Power management is reducing your frequency when you're idle.