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[ubuntu_studio] Duo Core CPU Running at two different frequencies...

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http://ubuntuforums.org – I have a Sony Vaio laptop (VGN-FZ140E) running Ubuntu Studio 9.10, kernel 2.6.31-20-generic-pae SMP i686. I've been noticing some performance issues and was checking to make sure that both cores were active when I came across a discrepancy with the CPU core frequencies. According to /proc/cpuinfo, one processor is running at 800 MHz and the other at 1801 MHz. This laptop has very few settings in the BIOS, definitely not overclocking (let alone "underclocking"). The following is the abridged output of /proc/cpuinfo: Code: processor    : 0 vendor_id& (Hardware)