GODRIVER-3419 Use a semaphore to limit concurrent conn creation #2098
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GODRIVER-3419
Summary
This PR refactors the connection pool to eliminate the persistent maxConnection goroutines spawns at pool construction. Here we adopt a more lightweight, on-demand model inspired by @matthewdale's POC c26a3cb. Each new goroutine is responsible for creating exactly one connection and then terminates immediately.
Background & Motivation
While so-far not reproducible locally, the "spawn-and-done" approach suggested by this PR intends to avoid any long-term memory allocation patterns causing the GC to thrash. See ticket for more information.