Evacuate chunk on networking issues need limits
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Description
### Describe the bug
We output to multiple locations, one of the locations was down for a long period of time and fluent began evacuating chunks to the root_dir until it filled up the disk. It would be good to add an option to limit the size of the evacuated chunks or disable the functionality
### To Reproduce
Make an output unreachable/timeout and let the logs flow until root_dir is full.
### Expected behavior
Evacuated chunks should have a limit to prevent filling up the disk or the feature should be able to be disabled. Or both
### Your Environment
```markdown
- Fluentd version: 1.19.0
- Package version:
- Operating system:
- Kernel version:
```
### Your Configuration
```apache
Any config with an output that can be unavailable/unreachable
```
### Your Error Log
```shell
2026-05-04 15:15:29 +0000 [warn]: #0 chunk files are evacuated to /tmp/fluent/buffer/object_570. chunk_id="650ff4c25bf36ff8208adc20ecb6e68d"
```
### Additional context
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