Occurs when a task is currently performing CLR execution and is waiting for a semaphore. Information from Microsoft®
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The charts are based on 2.1 TB of data collected from 4207 instances uploaded by 323 Spotlight users over an 8 week period.
CLR_SEMAPHORE
Category: Idle
SQL Server versions: 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017
This is an idle wait and so it can be safely ignored.
What is CLR_SEMAPHORE?
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answered 3132 days ago
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This wait never occurs for most instances
For each of 4207 instances, we ranked CLR_SEMAPHORE on how frequent it is compared to all other recent waits. The chart shows the total of all rankings.
Prevalence of CLR_SEMAPHORE across the Spotlight Population
For 32 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is around 19 seconds
For each instance, we found all the recent hours when it had a CLR_SEMAPHORE wait. We found the average latency for each of those hours.
231 instances contributed data to this chart