Unusual Threadpool Waits

Josh Darnell explains why you might get threadpool waits even when you think you shouldn’t:

I occasionally see (usually brief) THREADPOOL waits on systems that are really not all that heavily loaded. This is my investigation into why. Some might say I have too much time on my hands.

Before getting into these unusual THREADPOOL cases, let’s cover the normal ones.

Read the whole thing. It’s example #9068 of how a particular wait is not always a bad thing.