thanks for whatever share of the compliments I deserve!

>                                                                     The
.only problem is that during long compiles, it seems to hang.  I remember hearin
>g
>that there were questions on whether the kernel was really paging correctly,
>and thougth of this as a possible cause.  I can't compile a kernel because it 
>hangs half way in the middle.



Try:
	sysctl -w debug.doclusterread=0
	sysctl -w debug.doclusterwrite=0

(e.g., in /etc/rc.local).  That doesn't fix the bug, but increases
the mean-time-between-crashes enough to build a kernel.

>And a quick other question - 
>        Will mipsel-dec-elfnetbsd work to compile gcc 2.7.0 on NetBSD/pmax?

I think I ended up configuring pmax-dec-elf.  More precisely, I used
whatever gcc's configure chose.  If I can avoid running Ultrix ecoff
binaries long enough -- they really wedge my machine-- I'll put
together a snapshot including a gcc 2.7.0 binary.  Building
gcc on a 2100 would be *slow*.

--Jonathan