The engine emits Action::SnapshotHint every time this many entries have been applied past the current floor. Set to 0 to disable.
max_log_entries
0 (off)
Live-log guardrail. When the number of log entries above the current snapshot floor exceeds this, the engine emits a SnapshotHint regardless of the applied-entries band. Protects against runaway log growth when apply is lagging.
§9.6 pre-vote. A disrupted follower probes peers before bumping its term, so flapping nodes can’t force the rest of the cluster to step down on every reconnect.
§9 leader-lease. When the leader has received a majority AE ack within this many ticks, linearizable reads skip the ReadIndex round-trip and return immediately. Must be strictly less than election_timeout_min_ticks - heartbeat_interval_ticks, otherwise Config::validate rejects it.