On Feb 9, 2012, at 4:53 AM, Jaromir Capik wrote: > Actually I did my own tests on my workstation with: > Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU W3520 @ 2.67GHz > > The test application was producing a fixed amount of load triggered > by the system clock each second and the results were surprisingly > opposite: > > 1.) with frequency set to 2.66GHz the load was approximately 34% > 2.) with frequency set to 1.73GHz the load was approximately 52% > > Whilst the load should be 34% in both cases ... > > I tested that with procps 3.2.8 and procps-ng 3.3.2 and both of them > returned the same result. Hi Jaromir, I was referring to tics, not load. And your loads look proper given the frequencies. Jim