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usnic: increase the listen() backlog size

Rarely -- but it happens -- the connectivity client gets ECONNREFUSED
because the connectivity agent listen() backlog is too small.  Rather
than put in a loop on the client side, take the simple way out for
now: increase the backlog size to an arbitrarily-large number.

Reviewed by Dave Goodell.

cmr=v1.8.2:reviewer=ompi-rm1.8