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by estro0182 1557 days ago
Theoretically I think that’s possible. In a practical setting it is not since task arrival times are of a probability distribution; this means that utilization is not 100% and therefore queues do not grow to infinity. Given the author’s point about ~80% and above being bad, I imagine the immediate processing scenario to still be pathological.

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30601286