slurmctld maintains a separate count of incoming message traffic in slurmctld_config.server_thread_count and outgoing message traffic in agent_cnt / agent_thread_cnt. Then ctld defers certain operations if the former remains below certain thresholds or the latter remains below others, but in some places, it might be desirable to observe if the sum of both incoming/outgoing remains below a reasonable number. Background discussion: https://bugs.schedmd.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5443#c69 and https://bugs.schedmd.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5443#c170 and https://bugs.schedmd.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6189#c10
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After letting sites breath for a while with 2b25aa4e555 and 67a9c2f786e8 it looks like things got better, so the rest of the proposed ideas can be reclassified as sev-5.