John Kohl <jtk@kolvir.arlington.ma.us> writes:

> 
> This sounds vaguely familiar--is your /netbsd the same as the running
> kernel?  maybe it's trying to determine the system load but failing in
> weird ways due to mismatched kernel symbols?

sendmail(8) does not use the kernel image to determine the load; it
uses getloadavg(3), which uses sysctl(3).