I found the culprit was the NetworkManager daemon which consumed all processor capacity. Killing it made everything OK, except I now had to manually configure network connections, which isn't acceptable on a laptop which you carry around.
Digging deeper I found /var/log/messages was filled with logs about nm-system-settings daemon continously restarting, then crashing with the error "Invalid or missig ssid".
I managed to get NetworkManager running by removing ifcfg-suse from the plugins in /etc/nm-system-settings.conf. No idea why that helped, but now I am able to connect to both wired and wireless via knetworkmanager, AND the laptop is snappy as ever.
/Lennart
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