If I have a fixed thread pool of 8 threads (my CPU...

# coroutines

[Luis Munoz]

If I have a fixed thread pool of 8 threads (my CPU has 4 cores, 8 hyper threads) and I look at the queue size and is between 0 and 1k, and the processing is CPU bound. My CPU usage is never maxed out (20% ish). Does that mean that adding more threads should necessarily keep my queue size from spiking to 1k? Don't understanding how my cpu isn't maxed out and I can be getting queuing

[jimn]

did you profile execution for the percentage of stacktraces?

[Dico]

Your workload may be using blocking IO