unixware 7.1.4 sendmail issues



just discovered that no all mail local, uucp, and smtp is stuck in mqueue
for no apparent reason - syslog shows entries such as below:
any idea what my problem might be?



Aug 30 16:07:02 casedrum sendmail[5839]: rejecting connections on daemon
Daemon0
: load average: 36
Aug 30 16:07:17 casedrum sendmail[5839]: rejecting connections on daemon
Daemon0
: load average: 36
Aug 30 16:07:37 casedrum sendmail[5839]: runqueue: Skipping queue run --
load av
erage too high
Aug 30 16:07:37 casedrum sendmail[5839]: rejecting connections on daemon
Daemon0
: load average: 35


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