Speeding up replication startup/recovery

Greets,

My test replication seems to be proceeding normally, but the process appears
to be quite slow:

SLAVE
...postgres: startup process   recovering 000000010000019000000024    (1)
...postgres: wal receiver process   streaming 190/244FEA80

MASTER
...postgres: wal sender process replicator 1.1.1.1(55390) streaming 190/244FEA80

There are quite a few log files to process and both machines are not heavily
taxed.  Is there any way to expedite this initial recovery process (1)?  It
seems to be chugging along at a rather sedate pace.

Thanks
Henry