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Buy lots of RAM, it's the cheapest way to improve real performance on any virtual-memory system. 64MB now comes standard on most clone configurations. This is good enough for X.

Tuning is simple. Watch your job mix with top(1) and add memory until you're not swapping to disk any more.

Eric S. Raymond