Может и не в драйверах дело. Непонятно.
Конфигурация: Материнская плата - EliteGroup L4IPEA2, процессор celeron 1.7, 512 оперативки (две по 256).
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top - 13:24:31 up 7 min, 2 users, load average: 0.39, 0.77, 0.48
Tasks: 110 total, 2 running, 108 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 1.7%us, 0.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 97.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 1.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 515580k total, 487104k used, 28476k free, 13192k buffers
Swap: 1052248k total, 0k used, 1052248k free, 253680k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
5349 root 20 0 38964 26m 8988 S 2.0 5.2 0:20.64 Xorg
5655 andrey 20 0 27612 10m 7516 S 1.3 2.0 0:05.36 gkrellm
5664 andrey 20 0 15316 6344 4708 S 1.3 1.2 0:03.34 gxneur
5808 andrey 20 0 172m 47m 20m S 0.7 9.5 0:26.05 firefox
6146 andrey 20 0 2308 1112 856 R 0.7 0.2 0:00.12 top
1 root 20 0 2844 1692 544 S 0.0 0.3 0:01.72 init
2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
6 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 events/0
7 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 khelper
41 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.10 kblockd/0
44 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
45 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpi_notify
117 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod
151 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush
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total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 515580 486940 28640 0 13204 253744
-/+ buffers/cache: 219992 295588
Swap: 1052248 0 1052248