The combination of only one slave being used and the slave_selection_criteria
being LEAST_CURRENT_OPERATIONS can possibly cause a connection pileup on one
slave server. This would skew the query distribution heavily towards the first
available slave even if multiple slave were being used.
Having the maximum number of slave servers to be equal to the total amount of
available slaves allows for a more even and responsive distribution of the
query traffic.
The build files for monitors were referring to monitor_common.c which was
refactored out and combined with monitor.c. Due to this change, maxbinlogcheck
required maxscale_pcre2.c and externcmd.c.
Since localtime is not thread-safe it should not be used in multithreaded
contexts. For this reason all calls to localtime were changed to localtime_r
in code where concurrency issues were possible.
Internal tests were left unchanged because they aren't multithreaded.
Claiming that the loading of maxscale.cnf failed in case of any
error was misleading. Maxscale may not succeed in opening it,
reading it or processing it.
Use of skygw_log_write() in ss_dassert and ss_info_dassert replaced
with the use of MXS_ERROR(). In addition, ss_dassert and ss_info_dassert
are now expressions that require a trailing ;.
The log message was labeled as a warning instead of an error and finding out
the real reason why MaxScale didn't start when a filter wasn't found was difficult.
A buffer was allocated for strlen(event) characters leading to the
name always being truncated by one character. The use of a buffer was
unnecessary and was fixed by using the mon_get_event_name function directly.
When a filter module is not found or the instance creation fails, this is considered
a fatal error and MaxScale will not start. If a failure occurs when the configuration
is being reloaded, the service will not use filters and an error will be logged.
Added maxadmin command to flush all logs to disk. This will allow tests
to gather all logs without having to wait for the logs to be flushed by
the log flusher thread.
