> your system load average will become 3000, and it will essentially lead to no other processes being able to run well on the same machine. That doesn't sound

> your system load average will become 3000, and it will essentially lead to no other processes being able to run well on the same machine. That doesn't sound right. I mean, there are many schedulers available, but I was under the impression that most have a separate blocked queue. (Or more specifically, anything blocked will not be in the runnable pool - those will be dequeued) I.e. anything waiting on a syscall will be mostly ignited. (Please correct me if I'm misunderstanding the usual behaviour here)