Comment 12 for bug 13597

(In reply to comment #11)
> Well I solved my problem! It was powernowd all the time trying to be smart and
> adjust the clock on my p4 2.5GHz on the fly so that most of the time the
> processor was at ~300MHz. Geez, that hurts...
>
> Right now I have installed powernowd (0.90-3ubuntu12). Just had to issue "sudo
> /etc/init.d/powernowd stop" and the crawling came to an end :)
>
> Better fix this package.

If you're running on a laptop, this is not a bug. If you aren't using a laptop,
your system might be incorrectly detected as a laptop, but this seems unlikely.