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Historically the default frontend's maxconn used to be quite low (2000),
which was sufficient two decades ago but often proved to be a problem
when users had purposely set the global maxconn value but forgot to set
the frontend's.

There is no point in keeping this arbitrary limit for frontends : when
the global maxconn is lower, it's already too high and when the global
maxconn is much higher, it becomes a limiting factor which causes trouble
in production.

This commit allows the value to be set to zero, which becomes the new
default value, to mean it's not directly limited, or in fact it's set
to the global maxconn. Since this operation used to be performed before
computing a possibly automatic global maxconn based on memory limits,
the calculation of the maxconn value and its propagation to the backends'
fullconn has now moved to a dedicated function, proxy_adjust_all_maxconn(),
which is called once the global maxconn is stabilized.

This comes with two benefits :
  1) a configuration missing "maxconn" in the defaults section will not
     limit itself to a magically hardcoded value but will scale up to the
     global maxconn ;

  2) when the global maxconn is not set and memory limits are used instead,
     the frontends' maxconn automatically adapts, and the backends' fullconn
     as well.
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The HAProxy documentation has been split into a number of different files for
ease of use.

Please refer to the following files depending on what you're looking for :

  - INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install HAProxy
  - LICENSE for the project's license
  - CONTRIBUTING for the process to follow to submit contributions

The more detailed documentation is located into the doc/ directory :

  - doc/intro.txt for a quick introduction on HAProxy
  - doc/configuration.txt for the configuration's reference manual
  - doc/lua.txt for the Lua's reference manual
  - doc/SPOE.txt for how to use the SPOE engine
  - doc/network-namespaces.txt for how to use network namespaces under Linux
  - doc/management.txt for the management guide
  - doc/regression-testing.txt for how to use the regression testing suite
  - doc/peers.txt for the peers protocol reference
  - doc/coding-style.txt for how to adopt HAProxy's coding style
  - doc/internals for developer-specific documentation (not all up to date)