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The description shown below is the top answer as voted by the Spotlight community.

The charts are based on 2.1 TB of data collected from 4207 instances uploaded by 323 Spotlight users over an 8 week period.

CLR_CRST

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

What is CLR_CRST?

1 Answer

 

Occurs when a task is currently performing CLR execution and is waiting to enter a critical section of the task that is currently being used by another task. Information from Microsoft®
Very rare

This wait never occurs for most instances

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

Prevalence of CLR_CRST across the Spotlight Population

For 74 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is less than 0.44 ms

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

380 instances contributed data to this chart

Latency Distribution of CLR_CRST across the Spotlight Population