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High run queue when low cpu utilisation

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kwib

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Oct 14, 2002
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Does anyone know why you might have high run queue values when cpu utilisation is quite low?
 
If a process is holding a mutex while waiting on I/O, and the other processes are also waiting on the same mutex, would not Running processes be high and CPU be low?

Nothing else comes to mind, but that scenario

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