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CLR_AUTO_EVENT

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

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

What is CLR_AUTO_EVENT?

2 Answers

 

Occurs when a task is currently performing common language runtime (CLR) execution and is waiting for a particular autoevent to be initiated. Long waits are typical, and do not indicate a problem. Information from Microsoft®

 

If you have a SQL CLR application, you may notice that waits on CLR_MANUAL_EVENT and CLR_AUTO_EVENT from sys.dm_os_wait_stats are very high. This is normal and can be safely ignored because these waits reflect internal CLR runtime waits under normal conditions. ...

Read more at: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/psssql/archive/2008/02/05/high-waits-on-clr-manual-event-and-clr-auto-event.aspx

Very rare

This wait never occurs for most instances

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

Prevalence of CLR_AUTO_EVENT across the Spotlight Population

For 74 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is less than 10 minutes

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

612 instances contributed data to this chart

Latency Distribution of CLR_AUTO_EVENT across the Spotlight Population