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BROKER_TRANSMITTER

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

This is an idle wait and so it can be safely ignored.

What is BROKER_TRANSMITTER?

2 Answers

 

Occurs when the Service Broker transmitter is waiting for work. Information from Microsoft®
 

Service Broker has a component known as the Transmitter which schedules messages from multiple dialogs to be sent across the wire over one or more connection endpoints. The transmitter has 2 dedicated threads for this purpose.

This wait type is charged when these transmitter threads are waiting for dialog messages to be sent using the transport connections.

High values of waiting_tasks_count for this wait type point to intermittent work for these transmitter threads and are not indications of any performance problem. If service broker is not used at all, waiting_tasks_count should be 2 (for the 2 transmitter threads) and wait_time_ms should be twice the duration since instance start up. 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_TRANSMITTER on how frequent it is compared to all other recent waits. The chart shows the total of all rankings.

Prevalence of BROKER_TRANSMITTER across the Spotlight Population

For 20 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is less than 110 ms

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

201 instances contributed data to this chart

Latency Distribution of BROKER_TRANSMITTER across the Spotlight Population