Bound concurrent image processing and upstream fetches (closes #64)

Nothing bounded total in-flight work, so a burst of cache misses across
hosts could exhaust memory. Two settings now do: max_concurrent_processing
(default the CPUs Go uses) and upstream_connections (default 64, beside
the per-host limit). A request that finds either full waits up to 10
seconds, then gets 503; a slot is released on every path. No request
holds source bytes while it waits: a cached source is read only after
the processing slot is taken, and a fetched one only while it holds its
upstream connection. libvips runs one worker thread per image with its
operation cache off. Both waits count toward downstream_timeout, as the
README says.

Model: opus-5-5

TODO.md

@@ -25,11 +25,20 @@ The disk cache is now size-bounded with LRU eviction
 
 # Next Step
 
-P1: rate limit global concurrent upstream fetches to prevent resource
-exhaustion
+P2: security: referer blacklist
 
 # Completed Steps
 
+- 2026-09-29 bound concurrent image processing and upstream fetches (closes
+  #64): `max_concurrent_processing` (default the number of CPUs pixa can use)
+  limits the images decoded and encoded at once, and `upstream_connections`
+  (default 64) the connections to all upstream hosts together, on top of
+  `upstream_connections_per_host`; a fetch holds its connection until its image
+  has been processed, and a request whose source is cached reads it only once it
+  has a processing slot; a request that finds either limit reached waits up to
+  10 seconds for a free one, then gets 503 `server busy, try again later`;
+  libvips runs one worker thread per image with its operation cache off;
+  documented in `README.md` and `config.example.yml`.
 - 2026-09-29 Dockerfiles install through `script/bootstrap` (closes #95): the
   `Dockerfile` lint and build stages and `Dockerfile.lint` copy `script/`,
   `go.mod` and `go.sum`, then run `script/bootstrap` in place of their own
@@ -316,7 +325,6 @@ exhaustion
 # Future Steps
 
 - P2: security
-    - referer blacklist
     - per-IP rate limiting on the image routes
     - per-origin rate limiting
 - P2: HTTP response handling