Intermittent connection pool exhaustion symptoms during high TCP concurrency on Windows 11

The goal is to assess whether an imbalance in Receive Side Scaling (RSS) queue distribution can produce symptoms that resemble intermittent connection pool exhaustion when Windows 11 handles a sustained high volume of concurrent TCP connections.

Constraints include the dependence on the network adapter driver’s reported queue count, the possibility that RSS queues are fewer than the number of logical processors or are affinitized to a subset of cores, and the need to correlate RSS‑related performance counters with connection‑pool metrics without altering the adapter state during measurement.

What specific RSS counter patterns indicate an imbalance that could limit effective connection handling?

How does the relationship between the reported NumberOfReceiveQueues and the system’s logical processor count influence the likelihood of observing pool‑exhaustion‑like symptoms under load?