mysqldump on large database..

[SDiZ Cheng]

When i use mysqldump, 
seems that MySQL will open all the tables in the database.
But, what i have is: a database will over 10,000 tables ..
I get a "Too much opened file" error on this..
I think increasing open_file_limit is not possible,
because of the limit of the OS itself..

Can anyone suggest an alternative for mysqldump?

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