[Mimedefang] Open filedescriptors waring on a busy server

[David F. Skoll]

Martin Blapp wrote:

> I'm a but clueless, but the more load I see on our server, the following
> well known warning is ussued:

> WARNING: Something in your Perl filter appears to have opened a file
> descriptor outside of any function.

That's strange; it shouldn't be load-dependent.

> Could it be that some of the
> main code is executed too slowly because the filter is spending to much
> time acception already arriving connections ?

Each slave is single-threaded, so that shouldn't happen.  I honestly
don't know what it could be.

Is there a way under FreeBSD to see a process's open file descriptors?
(In Linux, it's under /proc/PID/fd)  Maybe that would give us a clue?

Regards,

David.