The bios has something to do with that as well. I have a dual pentium
machine at work that was really slow. I looked in the bios and it has an
option to cache 64mb or 512mb. speed up my kernel compiles (2.2.x) by about
12 minutes. (took 20, after the change, it took about 8)
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