Snip for a DG/UX man page on their implementation of sendmail.
The sendmail program divides the value of the factor
you specify by the difference between the current load
average and the load average limit to determine the
maximum message priority of messages to be sent immediately.
When the resulting quotient is less than the priority of
the message, the job is queued rather than run immediately.
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