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BROKER_INIT

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

What is BROKER_INIT?

2 Answers

 

Occurs when initializing Service Broker in each active database. This should occur infrequently. Information from Microsoft®
 

This wait type is charged each time Service Broker fails to initialize internal broker managers for any database. Service Broker waits for about 1 second before re-attempting to initialize broker for same database. These events should be rare.

Waiting_tasks_count for this wait type is the number of times Service Broker failed to initialize broker on any database. Wait_time_ms will be proportional to waiting_tasks_count with avg_wait_time_ms being close to 1 second.

High or increasing values of waiting_tasks_count for this wait type indicate some problem in the SQL instance. Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sql_service_broker/archive/2008/12/01/service-broker-wait-types.aspx
Very rare

This wait never occurs for most instances

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

Prevalence of BROKER_INIT across the Spotlight Population

For 95 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is around 990 ms

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

29 instances contributed data to this chart

Latency Distribution of BROKER_INIT across the Spotlight Population