The MacOS CI in github actions often hangs without any logs. GH argues that
it's due to resource utilization, either running out of disk space, memory, or CPU
starvation, and thus the runner is terminated.
This PR contains multiple attempts to resolve this:
1. introducing pause_process instead of SIGSTOP, which waits for the process
to stop before resuming the test, possibly resolving race conditions in some tests,
this was a suspect since there was one test that could result in an infinite loop in that
case, in practice this didn't help, but still a good idea to keep.
2. disable the `save` config in many tests that don't need it, specifically ones that use
heavy writes and could create large files.
3. change the `populate` proc to use short pipeline rather than an infinite one.
4. use `--clients 1` in the macos CI so that we don't risk running multiple resource
demanding tests in parallel.
5. enable `--verbose` to be repeated to elevate verbosity and print more info to stdout
when a test or a server starts.
Currently while a sharded pubsub message publish tries to propagate the message across the cluster, a NULL check is missing for clusterLink. clusterLink could be NULL if the link is causing memory beyond the set threshold cluster-link-sendbuf-limit and server terminates the link.
This change introduces two things:
Avoids the engine crashes on the publishing node if a message is tried to be sent to a node and the link is NULL.
Adds a debugging tool CLUSTERLINK KILL to terminate the clusterLink between two nodes.
