On Feb 9, 2012, at 5:01 PM, Craig Small wrote: > The problem is that top sees 500 user ticks out of 2000 user ticks in > the first instance and 500 user ticks out of 1000 user ticks in the > second. > > Is that the problem here? > > It sounds like Jaromir needs the kernel to have a "CPU bludging because > its running slower" tick. > > If so, is there something in the kernel to see this? Craig, I'm pretty sure those weren't top results, but some other tool. I believe the tics top sees will always remain the same, regardless of the cpu's frequency. Jim