v1.18: Change DEFAULT_TPU_CONNECTION_POOL_SIZE to 1 (backport of #1014)…

… (#1043)

Change DEFAULT_TPU_CONNECTION_POOL_SIZE to 1 (#1014)

Co-authored-by: Lijun Wang <83639177+lijunwangs@users.noreply.github.com>

tpu-client/src/tpu_client.rs

@@ -21,7 +21,11 @@ use {
 
 pub const DEFAULT_TPU_ENABLE_UDP: bool = false;
 pub const DEFAULT_TPU_USE_QUIC: bool = true;
-pub const DEFAULT_TPU_CONNECTION_POOL_SIZE: usize = 4;
+
+/// The default connection count is set to 1 -- it should
+/// be sufficient for most use cases. Validators can use
+/// --tpu-connection-pool-size to override this default value.
+pub const DEFAULT_TPU_CONNECTION_POOL_SIZE: usize = 1;
 
 pub type Result<T> = std::result::Result<T, TpuSenderError>;