ntopng MySQL Flow Export: Increase the Maximum Number of Open Files

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ntopng uses partitioned MySQL tables when storing flows. As MySQL needs a file handle for each partition and its index, it is important to make sure that the open_files_limit is large enough to allow the process to keep all these files open. Typically, open_files_limit  default value works out-of-the-box but there are some packages/distributions that keeps this […]