From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.4; Linux; X11; en_US) KHTML/3.4.91 (like Gecko)  Description of problem: When receiving mail using sendmail, the server suddenly starts rejecting mail and  starts reporting extremely high load averages. This is my personal mail and load is very  low. So, far I have been running an i386 system and moved on to a new computer  with x86_64 rawhide (both system at the same level, today).    ps -ef | grep send shows:    root      2674     1  0 08:00 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: accepting connections  smmsp     2680     1  0 08:00 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: Queue runner@01:00:00  for /var/spool/clientmqueue      tail /var/log/maillog shows:    Oct 11 08:55:19 compsci sendmail[2674]: accepting connections again for daemon MTA  Oct 11 08:55:29 compsci sendmail[2674]: rejecting connections on daemon MTA: load  average: 132085  Oct 11 08:55:44 compsci sendmail[2674]: rejecting connections on daemon MTA: load  average: 383773  Oct 11 08:55:59 compsci sendmail[2674]: rejecting connections on daemon MTA: load  average: 1000873  Oct 11 08:56:14 compsci sendmail[2674]: accepting connections again for daemon MTA     Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): sendmail-8.13.5-1  How reproducible: Always  Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install sendmail x86_64 and allow receiving local mail  2. Wait for a while and do ps -ef | grep send  3.       Additional info: