cpu speed problem

[Andy Green]

Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> Andy Green wrote:
>> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>>
>>> worked well until 10 days ago. then, the laptop started its fan, and
>>> drove down its cpuspeed to about a quarter of the speed before. if i run
>>> the system-monitor, the cpu is busy always about 30 %, whereas before it
>> Did you look into which process was eating the extra CPU?
>>
>> -Andy
>>
> Could the extra CPU usage be because the CPU is running so much
> slower that it requires a higher CPU load to do the same tasks?

You're quite right, it can easily be that.

Is there anything down /proc/acpi any more on this machine then, in case
it no longer is able to start ACPI?

Anything interesting in

dmesg | grep ACPI

-Andy