Forrest McDaniel shares an example of Resource Governor blocking query activity:
Ok, I get it, scheduling queries can be complicated. See this and this and maybe this and this too but only if you have insomnia. I still thought I kinda understood it. Then I started seeing hundreds of query timeouts on a quiet server, where the queries were waiting on…what? CPU? The server’s at 20%, why would a query time out after a minute, while only getting 5s of CPU, and not being blocked?
It was Resource Governor messing up one of my servers recently in a way I never expected.
Click through for the story. I’m not sure I’ve experienced this when running Resource Governor, but Forrest has an easy demo which replicates the problem.