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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.

FS_FC_RWLOCK

Category: Other
SQL Server versions: 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017

What is FS_FC_RWLOCK?

1 Answer

 

Occurs when there is a wait by the FILESTREAM garbage collector to do either of the following:

  • Disable garbage collection (used by backup and restore).
  • Execute one cycle of the FILESTREAM garbage collector. Information from Microsoft®
Very rare

This wait never occurs for most instances

For each of 4207 instances, we ranked FS_FC_RWLOCK on how frequent it is compared to all other recent waits. The chart shows the total of all rankings.

Prevalence of FS_FC_RWLOCK across the Spotlight Population

For 80 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is less than 1.1 ms

For each instance, we found all the recent hours when it had a FS_FC_RWLOCK wait. We found the average latency for each of those hours.

2 instances contributed data to this chart

Latency Distribution of FS_FC_RWLOCK across the Spotlight Population