In 2.13, the default inbound and outbound HTTP request queue capacity
decreased from 10,000 requests to 100 requests (in PR #2078). This
change results in proxies shedding load much more aggressively while
under high load to a single destination service, resulting in increased
error rates in comparison to 2.12 (see #11055 for
details).

This commit changes the default HTTP request queue capacities for the
inbound and outbound proxies back to 10,000 requests, the way they were
in 2.12 and earlier. In manual load testing I've verified that
increasing the queue capacity results in a substantial decrease in 503
Service Unavailable errors emitted by the proxy: with a queue capacity
of 100 requests, the load test described [here] observed a failure rate
of 51.51% of requests, while with a queue capacity of 10,000 requests,
the same load test observes no failures.

Note that I did not modify the TCP connection queue capacities, or the
control plane request queue capacity. These were previously configured
by the same variable before #2078, but were split out into separate vars
in that change. I don't think the queue capacity limits for TCP
connection establishment or for control plane requests are currently
resulting in instability the way the decreased request queue capacity
is, so I decided to make a more focused change to just the HTTP request
queues for the proxies.

[here]: #11055 (comment)

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* Increase HTTP request queue capacity (linkerd/linkerd2-proxy#2449)

Signed-off-by: Eliza Weisman <eliza@buoyant.io>

In 2.13, the default inbound and outbound HTTP request queue capacity
decreased from 10,000 requests to 100 requests (in PR #2078). This
change results in proxies shedding load much more aggressively while
under high load to a single destination service, resulting in increased
error rates in comparison to 2.12 (see linkerd/linkerd2#11055 for
details).

This commit changes the default HTTP request queue capacities for the
inbound and outbound proxies back to 10,000 requests, the way they were
in 2.12 and earlier. In manual load testing I've verified that
increasing the queue capacity results in a substantial decrease in 503
Service Unavailable errors emitted by the proxy: with a queue capacity
of 100 requests, the load test described [here] observed a failure rate
of 51.51% of requests, while with a queue capacity of 10,000 requests,
the same load test observes no failures.

Note that I did not modify the TCP connection queue capacities, or the
control plane request queue capacity. These were previously configured
by the same variable before #2078, but were split out into separate vars
in that change. I don't think the queue capacity limits for TCP
connection establishment or for control plane requests are currently
resulting in instability the way the decreased request queue capacity
is, so I decided to make a more focused change to just the HTTP request
queues for the proxies.

[here]: linkerd/linkerd2#11055 (comment)

In 2.13, the default inbound and outbound HTTP request queue capacity
decreased from 10,000 requests to 100 requests (in PR #2078). This
change results in proxies shedding load much more aggressively while
under high load to a single destination service, resulting in increased
error rates in comparison to 2.12 (see linkerd/linkerd2#11055 for
details).

This commit changes the default HTTP request queue capacities for the
inbound and outbound proxies back to 10,000 requests, the way they were
in 2.12 and earlier. In manual load testing I've verified that
increasing the queue capacity results in a substantial decrease in 503
Service Unavailable errors emitted by the proxy: with a queue capacity
of 100 requests, the load test described [here] observed a failure rate
of 51.51% of requests, while with a queue capacity of 10,000 requests,
the same load test observes no failures.

Note that I did not modify the TCP connection queue capacities, or the
control plane request queue capacity. These were previously configured
by the same variable before #2078, but were split out into separate vars
in that change. I don't think the queue capacity limits for TCP
connection establishment or for control plane requests are currently
resulting in instability the way the decreased request queue capacity
is, so I decided to make a more focused change to just the HTTP request
queues for the proxies.

[here]: linkerd/linkerd2#11055 (comment)

In 2.13, the default inbound and outbound HTTP request queue capacity
decreased from 10,000 requests to 100 requests (in PR #2078). This
change results in proxies shedding load much more aggressively while
under high load to a single destination service, resulting in increased
error rates in comparison to 2.12 (see #11055 for
details).

This commit changes the default HTTP request queue capacities for the
inbound and outbound proxies back to 10,000 requests, the way they were
in 2.12 and earlier. In manual load testing I've verified that
increasing the queue capacity results in a substantial decrease in 503
Service Unavailable errors emitted by the proxy: with a queue capacity
of 100 requests, the load test described [here] observed a failure rate
of 51.51% of requests, while with a queue capacity of 10,000 requests,
the same load test observes no failures.

Note that I did not modify the TCP connection queue capacities, or the
control plane request queue capacity. These were previously configured
by the same variable before #2078, but were split out into separate vars
in that change. I don't think the queue capacity limits for TCP
connection establishment or for control plane requests are currently
resulting in instability the way the decreased request queue capacity
is, so I decided to make a more focused change to just the HTTP request
queues for the proxies.

[here]: #11055 (comment)

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* Increase HTTP request queue capacity (linkerd/linkerd2-proxy#2449)

In 2.13, the default inbound and outbound HTTP request queue capacity
decreased from 10,000 requests to 100 requests (in PR #2078). This
change results in proxies shedding load much more aggressively while
under high load to a single destination service, resulting in increased
error rates in comparison to 2.12 (see #11055 for
details).

This commit changes the default HTTP request queue capacities for the
inbound and outbound proxies back to 10,000 requests, the way they were
in 2.12 and earlier. In manual load testing I've verified that
increasing the queue capacity results in a substantial decrease in 503
Service Unavailable errors emitted by the proxy: with a queue capacity
of 100 requests, the load test described [here] observed a failure rate
of 51.51% of requests, while with a queue capacity of 10,000 requests,
the same load test observes no failures.

Note that I did not modify the TCP connection queue capacities, or the
control plane request queue capacity. These were previously configured
by the same variable before #2078, but were split out into separate vars
in that change. I don't think the queue capacity limits for TCP
connection establishment or for control plane requests are currently
resulting in instability the way the decreased request queue capacity
is, so I decided to make a more focused change to just the HTTP request
queues for the proxies.

[here]: #11055 (comment)

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* Increase HTTP request queue capacity (linkerd/linkerd2-proxy#2449)