there is a thread ono this list about a problem in syslogd which made
syslog-clients (like sendmail busy-looping on logging.
That might be related to this. (it is fixed in the source already, so
upgrading again might help)
See the thread with subject like 'Re: r316958: booting a server takes
Just an FYI of a more recent report of runaway sendmail on a
more recent system version ( -r317039 ):
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Tom Vijlbrief
> Subject: Sendmail eats CPU on r317039
> Date: April 17, 2017 at 3:39:37 AM PDT
> To: "freebsd-current at freebsd.org" ,
> freebsd-arm
>
> On