Clarification on Expected Behaviour

[gregfletch]

Hopefully a quick question to clarify expected behaviour. We are seeing jobs waiting in the Enqueued state due to configured rate limit throttling (expected). However, there may be other jobs which are not throttled that are stuck behind the throttled job(s) that are not getting picked up by the fetcher. Is this the expected behaviour (i.e. jobs that could theoretically be run are stuck waiting until the throttled jobs ahead of them are processed)? Or is it expected that the fetcher would go through the queue and pull out the first job that is allowed to be run? If it is the former, is there a recommendation for how best to work around this (i.e. so Sidekiq is better able to fully utilize its resources while throttled jobs are paused)?

Thanks!