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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.

BAD_PAGE_PROCESS

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

What is BAD_PAGE_PROCESS?

1 Answer

 

Occurs when the background suspect page logger is trying to avoid running more than every five seconds. Excessive suspect pages cause the logger to run frequently. Information from Microsoft®

Very rare

This wait never occurs for most instances

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

Prevalence of BAD_PAGE_PROCESS across the Spotlight Population

For 95 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is around 4.9 seconds

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

5 instances contributed data to this chart

Latency Distribution of BAD_PAGE_PROCESS across the Spotlight Population