TechnoCat

Software as a whole is getting overly complicated and details are commonly overlooked or missed. It sucks I agree.

Yes it would be weird, but it would still show throttling.

I will share an issue I and others have with their laptop that presents just a bit differently (a single cpu pegged at 100% instead of all of them).

If i wake my laptop from sleep while it is plugged into an external monitor, I will have a single cpu pegged at 100% trying to handle endless acpi interrupts. I have to hibernate my machine and turn it back on to fix it. Alternatively I can unplug the monitor before waking from sleep to prevent it from happening. I just hibernate instead of sleeping now.

Can you do screenshots with btop? Would be nice to see if the cpus are being throttled for temperature. I believe btop shows frequency and temp by default.