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ASYNC_IO_COMPLETION

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

What is ASYNC_IO_COMPLETION?

2 Answers

 

Occurs when a task is waiting for I/Os to finish. Information from Microsoft®

 

Used to indicate a worker is waiting on a asynchronous I/O operation to complete not associated with database pages

Somewhat common

This wait is somewhat common for most instances

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

Prevalence of ASYNC_IO_COMPLETION across the Spotlight Population

For 64 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is less than 570 ms

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

2903 instances contributed data to this chart

Latency Distribution of ASYNC_IO_COMPLETION across the Spotlight Population