I was also affected by this bug and I just solved it on my Thinkpad T61 by... blowing 3-4 times into the cooling system!!! Lots of dust escaped so I think my laptop just needs a bit of cleanup ;-) Now bios_limit stays at the highest level even under high load.
$ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/bios_limit 2201000 2201000 -- "scaling_max_freq" constantly shifting between minimum and maximum frequency https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/242006 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
