Throttled cfs_rq for a long time causes high load average in RHEL 7.9 servers
Issue
- Very high load average due to cfs_rq throttled.
- High Load average
- Processes are stuck in semaphore locks
- Or processes are stuck in mutex locks
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9.z
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