I had looked at other relevant threads on askubuntu but I figured it was a kernel issue. I'll certainly work within the context of this bug to try to fix if possible. I'm on 4.9.0-15-generic but I just installed 4.10.0-041000rc6.201701291830 and will reply with results (after removing the line from /etc/default/grub to disable pstate). Relevant info from cpuinfo:
vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 42 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500 CPU @ 3.30GHz stepping : 7 microcode : 0x29 cpu MHz : 3311.061 Threads (among many) that I saw on askubuntu http://askubuntu.com/questions/296653/ubuntu-13-04-cpu-frequency-scaling-stuck-on-lowest-frequency http://askubuntu.com/questions/353383/cpu-frequency-scaling-issue-scaling-max-freq-wrong -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1188647 Title: Please change intel_pstate default to disable To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1188647/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs