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Your system apears to have pretty decent configuration. I am runnning Suse 8 on three PC one of which is a P3 500, 256MB ram and things look okay on the machine.
If you are experiencing slowdown I can suggest somethings:
1. Use "top" or "gtop" or "kpm" to see what processes are running and what is taking more system resources.
2. Open yast2 control center -> system ->runlevel properties. See if there are any processes that starts at boot that you do not need. There may be daemons running that you may never use, so disable these. Also reduce the number of vtys by editing /etc/inittab. default is 6, make it something like 2 if you work on X windows most of the time. It wills save some resource.
3. See if you have hard drive dma enabled. Suse has it on by default. This makes a big difference in a systems performance. You can use /sbin/hdparm to check and set this. Please read the hdparm man page carefully before doing anything. Some options here can be dangerous.
4. What desktop do you use ? On older systems KDE3 may be a little slower. Try something like fluxbox or blackbox they are very light and fast.
5. Now to you browser. If yoy thing the system performance becomes sluggish using browser A, then try using browser B. Try "links" it is lightweight and fast.
Best of luck.
- Manas
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