if all my

Dispatchers.Default

threads (

Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors()

) are blocked under

runBlocking

, a

GlobalScope.future(<http://Dispatcher.IO|Dispatcher.IO>)

also fails to launch; why is this the case?

If all CPU cores are tied up, there’s literally no compute resources left to spawn IO threads. Dispatchers.IO threads are still running on the same physical hardware that Dispatchers.Default are, even if the thread pools are different

@Casey Brooks, the cores are probably idle. Only the thread are blocked. @vineethraj49 runBlocking is not allowed inside a coroutine.