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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.

ASYNC_DISKPOOL_LOCK

Category: IO
SQL Server versions: 2000, 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017

What is ASYNC_DISKPOOL_LOCK?

1 Answer

 

Occurs when there is an attempt to synchronize parallel threads that are performing tasks such as creating or initializing a file. Information from Microsoft®

Very rare

This wait never occurs for most instances

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

Prevalence of ASYNC_DISKPOOL_LOCK across the Spotlight Population

For 88 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is less than 0.07 ms

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

795 instances contributed data to this chart

Latency Distribution of ASYNC_DISKPOOL_LOCK across the Spotlight Population