What was described is not pathological. It doesn't involve disease or a disturbed mental state. No part is paradoxical, counterintuitive, or involves unexpected results.

Nothing shows that it is other than normal and healthy behavior that is produced from within a rational mental state. The complaint about scheduling is also normal and rational.

The closest thing to "pathological" that I'm seeing here in these comments is trendy misuse of the term.

`pathological` is being used here in the security context: For example, _a parser contains a vulnerability when pathological inputs cause a program to crash._

It is pathological for their utilization, as in “worst-case behavior.” Like how a program that makes and frees millions of differently-sized heap allocations is pathological for memory fragmentation.