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Your executor pool has 50 threads, but requests are queuing up and latency is climbing even though CPU usage is low. What's going on?

Tests whether you know low CPU with high queuing usually points to threads blocked waiting on I/O, not a CPU bottleneck.

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Your executor pool has 50 threads, but requests are queuing up and latency is climbing even though CPU usage is low. What's going on?

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