Output from turbostat shortly after desktop started: root@sierra:~# turbostat cor CPU %c0 GHz TSC %c1 %c3 %c6 %c7 %pc2 %pc3 %pc6 %pc7 3.60 2.45 1.99 9.08 2.49 0.42 84.41 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0 4.19 2.16 1.99 3.67 1.16 0.01 90.98 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 1 2.14 2.36 1.99 5.72 1 2 4.23 2.41 1.99 2.38 1.51 0.01 91.87 1 3 0.67 2.21 1.99 5.93 2 4 12.98 2.64 1.99 16.62 5.84 1.66 62.90 2 5 0.22 2.21 1.99 29.38 3 6 4.17 2.28 1.99 2.49 1.47 0.00 91.87 3 7 0.23 2.19 1.99 6.43 Output from top: root@sierra:~# top top - 08:54:55 up 3 min, 2 users, load average: 1.92, 1.36, 0.57 Tasks: 256 total, 1 running, 255 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 0.0 us, 0.0 sy, 0.0 ni, 99.8 id, 0.2 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st KiB Mem: 8069736 total, 1933568 used, 6136168 free, 100096 buffers KiB Swap: 8387580 total, 0 used, 8387580 free, 1048472 cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1482 mysql 20 0 547m 61m 7124 S 0.3 0.8 0:00.34 mysqld 2894 rocko 20 0 198m 3232 2520 S 0.3 0.0 0:00.01 gvfs-gphoto2-vo 1 root 20 0 24720 2660 1396 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.52 init 2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd 3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.09 ksoftirqd/0 4 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/0:0 5 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/0:0H 6 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/u:0 7 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/u:0H 8 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.31 migration/0 9 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rcu_bh 10 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.64 rcu_sched 11 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0 12 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/1 13 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 ksoftirqd/1 14 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 migration/1 15 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/1:0 16 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/1:0H 17 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/2 18 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.04 ksoftirqd/2 19 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 migration/2 20 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/2:0 21 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/2:0H 22 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/3 23 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 ksoftirqd/3 24 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 migration/3 25 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/3:0 26 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/3:0H 27 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/4 28 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.18 ksoftirqd/4 29 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 migration/4 30 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/4:0 31 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/4:0H 32 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/5 33 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 ksoftirqd/5 34 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/5 35 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/5:0 36 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/5:0H 37 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/6 38 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 ksoftirqd/6 39 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/6 40 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.06 kworker/6:0 41 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/6:0H 42 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/7 Output of turbostat a few seconds after the top command was interrupted: root@sierra:~# turbostat cor CPU %c0 GHz TSC %c1 %c3 %c6 %c7 %pc2 %pc3 %pc6 %pc7 0.37 2.01 1.99 0.72 0.01 0.00 98.90 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0 1.94 2.02 1.99 0.82 0.01 0.00 97.24 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 1 0.03 2.01 1.99 2.73 1 2 0.19 2.00 1.99 0.16 0.00 0.00 99.65 1 3 0.03 1.99 1.99 0.32 2 4 0.39 1.99 1.99 0.24 0.02 0.00 99.36 2 5 0.01 1.99 1.99 0.61 3 6 0.34 1.99 1.99 0.28 0.02 0.00 99.36 3 7 0.04 1.99 1.99 0.58 cor CPU %c0 GHz TSC %c1 %c3 %c6 %c7 %pc2 %pc3 %pc6 %pc7 0.50 2.02 1.99 0.85 0.01 0.00 98.64 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0 2.30 2.03 1.99 0.62 0.02 0.00 97.06 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 1 0.03 2.01 1.99 2.89 1 2 0.33 2.00 1.99 0.22 0.00 0.00 99.45 1 3 0.01 1.99 1.99 0.54 2 4 0.49 1.99 1.99 0.27 0.03 0.00 99.21 2 5 0.01 2.00 1.99 0.76 3 6 0.75 2.00 1.99 0.42 0.01 0.00 98.83 3 7 0.04 1.99 1.99 1.12 cor CPU %c0 GHz TSC %c1 %c3 %c6 %c7 %pc2 %pc3 %pc6 %pc7 0.19 2.05 1.99 0.51 0.01 0.00 99.29 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0 0.71 2.12 1.99 0.72 0.02 0.00 98.55 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 1 0.02 2.08 1.99 1.41 1 2 0.14 2.00 1.99 0.09 0.00 0.00 99.77 1 3 0.01 1.99 1.99 0.21 2 4 0.26 1.99 1.99 0.18 0.01 0.00 99.55 2 5 0.01 1.99 1.99 0.43 3 6 0.35 2.00 1.99 0.35 0.02 0.00 99.28 3 7 0.05 1.99 1.99 0.65 Output of cpuinfo right after the turbostat command: root@sierra:~# grep MHz /proc/cpuinfo cpu MHz : 800.000 cpu MHz : 800.000 cpu MHz : 800.000 cpu MHz : 800.000 cpu MHz : 800.000 cpu MHz : 800.000 cpu MHz : 800.000 cpu MHz : 800.000 ------ Suspend/resume happened here ------- Output of turbostat after a suspend/resume cycle: root@sierra:~# turbostat cor CPU %c0 GHz TSC %c1 %c3 %c6 %c7 %pc2 %pc3 %pc6 %pc7 2.99 0.95 1.99 4.79 0.43 0.02 91.77 4.98 0.29 7.05 58.86 0 0 8.21 0.84 1.99 3.65 0.75 0.00 87.39 4.98 0.29 7.05 58.86 0 1 0.86 1.00 1.99 11.00 1 2 4.86 0.98 1.99 2.83 0.44 0.00 91.87 1 3 1.28 1.33 1.99 6.40 2 4 3.38 0.97 1.99 2.70 0.17 0.06 93.70 2 5 1.01 0.99 1.99 5.06 3 6 3.89 1.00 1.99 1.61 0.37 0.02 94.12 3 7 0.43 1.09 1.99 5.07 cor CPU %c0 GHz TSC %c1 %c3 %c6 %c7 %pc2 %pc3 %pc6 %pc7 1.73 0.81 1.99 2.62 0.23 0.01 95.41 5.81 0.62 8.40 70.62 0 0 6.91 0.80 1.99 1.54 0.42 0.00 91.13 5.81 0.62 8.40 70.62 0 1 0.30 0.82 1.99 8.15 1 2 1.86 0.81 1.99 0.77 0.00 0.00 97.37 1 3 0.10 0.80 1.99 2.53 2 4 1.95 0.81 1.99 0.81 0.02 0.00 97.21 2 5 0.11 0.80 1.99 2.66 3 6 2.43 0.83 1.99 1.14 0.46 0.04 95.93 3 7 0.19 0.80 1.99 3.39 cor CPU %c0 GHz TSC %c1 %c3 %c6 %c7 %pc2 %pc3 %pc6 %pc7 0.93 0.86 2.00 1.40 0.10 0.00 97.57 3.76 0.12 5.48 81.67 0 0 4.68 0.81 2.00 1.39 0.15 0.00 93.77 3.76 0.12 5.48 81.67 0 1 0.20 0.82 2.00 5.87 1 2 0.80 0.85 2.00 0.33 0.04 0.00 98.83 1 3 0.11 0.82 2.00 1.02 2 4 0.39 0.90 2.00 0.22 0.01 0.00 99.38 2 5 0.08 0.81 2.00 0.53 3 6 1.10 1.06 2.00 0.43 0.18 0.00 98.29 3 7 0.11 0.80 2.00 1.42