pageserver: decrease utilization MAX_SHARDS #10489
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Problem
The intent of this parameter is to have pageservers consider themselves "full" if they've got lots of shards, even if they have plenty of capacity. It works, but because we typically successfully oversubscribe capacity up to 200%, the MAX_SHARDS limit is effectively doubled, so this 20,000 value ends up meaning 40,000, whereas the original intent was to limit nodes to ~10000 shards.
Summary of changes
This is all a bit subtle and indiret. Originally the limit was baked into the pageserver with the idea that the pageserver knows better what its own resources tolerate than the storage controller does, but in practice it would be probably be easier to understand all this if we just did it controller-side. So there's scope to refactor here in future.