Question : sendmail: rejecting connections on daemon MTA: load average: 674

My send mail is refusing to send mail because of a connection refused error.
I have a lot of disk i/o happending on my server and I can't reboot it as it is a production box.
How do I get my send mail working again with out a reboot of the server.
Please find attached a file that contains a more detailed information about what is happening.

Regards
Duke

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server1-sendmail-not-working.txt (6 KB) (File Type Details) 

Details about the server cpu and vsftp processes

Answer : sendmail: rejecting connections on daemon MTA: load average: 674

Ok it looks like sendmail stopped listening because the load average is too high.
See:
    http://sendmail.org/m4/tweaking_config.html#confREFUSE_LA

You should figure out why the load average is so high.  You might try:

    ps awwfux | less

Or:

    top

If such a high load average is normal for your server, you might want to increase confREFUSE_LA.  E.g put:

    define(`confREFUSE_LA', `1000')dnl

in your sendmail.mc file.