Nevermind, turns out the stupid hard drive in the box was fubarred.

Go figure.


M. Parsons wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am running an openbsd 4.1 box that is connected to 2 other computers.
>
> Whenever I send a file from one of the other computers to the openbsd
> machine (whether via ftp or samba), then ssh becomes unreponsive on the
> openbsd box. I have to wait for the file transfer to finish before sshd
> will respond.
>
> Even if I am logged in via ssh before the transfer starts, once the
> transfer starts, no commands will go though, I have to wait for the
> transfer to finish.
>
> The reverse is NOT TRUE, that is, if I send a file from the openbsd box
> to either computer, then everything is ok.
>
> IRQs are not shared by NICs, and the irq usage via vmstat -i seems normal.
>
> The speed on the transfers is around 45-50 Mbps. They are 100 Mbps
> nics, so I can live with that.
>
> netstat -i shows no errors, collissions or anything else out of the
> ordinary.
>
> No errors in dmesg or /var/log/messages.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
> (I could have swore I read about this months ago, but for the love of
> me, I cant find the post/url that was talking about it..)