[CentOS] Explained: Sendmail burst of "rejecting connections" - why?

On Friday 26 May 2006 7:15 am, Steve Snyder wrote:

What's the reason for the burst of sendmail complaints below?

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Several people (thanks, guys!) explained the situation to me. I thought that it was Sendmail itself that was experiencing the high load, which shouldn't ever happen. The real story is that it was the system that was experiencing the high load.

The cause of the system high load is no mystery. I was doing a "make -j3" kernel build around that time, so there was high CPU and disk utilization. I wasn't aware when I posted my question that Sendmail monitors system load.

Thanks.