CERTAIN LEVEL
      
Problem description: mysqld crashes when we update the max_connections 
variable to lesser value than the number of currently open connections.
      
Analysis: The "alarm_queue.max_elements" size will be decided at the 
server start time and it will get modified if we change max_connections 
value. In the current scenario the value of "alarm_queue.max_elements" 
is decremented when the max_connections is set to 2. When updating the  
"alarm_queue.max_elements" value we are not updating "max_used_alarms" 
value. Hence, instead of getting the warning "thr_alarm queue is full" 
it is ending up in asserting the server at the time of inserting new 
elements in the queue.
      
Fix: the fix is to dynamically increase the size of the alarm_queue.
In order to do that, queue_insert_safe() should be used instead if
queue_insert().