Add initial-inflight-factor option to vespa-feed-client to mitigate the slow start #34247
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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The feed client experiences a slow start because the default initial target inflight value is too low in our environment, causing a 2-3 minute delay in the time it takes to reach optimal throughput.
Describe the solution you'd like
I would like an option called "initial-inflight-factor" that allows us to configure a higher initial target inflight.
This would help the feed client ramp up more quickly and avoid performance bottlenecks at startup.
Describe alternatives you've considered
One alternative we considered was setting the number of "connections" to 512 in order to mitigate the slow start.
However, this approach consumes significant machine resources.
Additional context
In our environment, we set the initial-inflight-factor to 64.