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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.

FULLTEXT GATHERER

Category: Other
SQL Server versions: 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017

What is FULLTEXT GATHERER?

1 Answer

 

Occurs during synchronization of full-text operations. Information from Microsoft®

Very rare

This wait never occurs for most instances

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

Prevalence of FULLTEXT GATHERER across the Spotlight Population

For 99 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is less than 0.053 ms

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

5 instances contributed data to this chart

Latency Distribution of FULLTEXT GATHERER across the Spotlight Population