We're using Workflow 8 on LF 9.2 Server/Client.

Recently it seems that some of our Workflows take a long time to start, and on the WF Admin console, there are 290+ running workflows (0 suspended). Those workflows are all running deadline activities (waits for a certain field to be set, the deadline waits for 20 days then sends an email reminder).

With so many concurrent running processes, is it possible that our LF server ran out of slots to run other workflows? Why isn't a deadline activity actually suspended until the timeout has occurred?