Sendmail rejecting connections due to bogus load messages with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • Following erroneous messages are printed in maillog about rejecting connections due to bogus load averages:
May 13 06:02:10 testhost sendmail[31975]: rejecting connections on daemon MTA: load average: 671088640
May 13 06:02:25 testhost sendmail[31975]: accepting connections again for daemon MTA
May 13 06:02:30 testhost sendmail[31975]: rejecting connections on daemon MTA: load average: 402653184
  • Above messages are printed even when load average is less than 1.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • sendmail-8.14.4-8.el6

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