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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.

DEADLOCK_ENUM_MUTEX

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

What is DEADLOCK_ENUM_MUTEX?

1 Answer

 

Occurs when the deadlock monitor and sys.dm_os_waiting_tasks try to make sure that SQL Server is not running multiple deadlock searches at the same time. Information from Microsoft®

Very rare

This wait never occurs for most instances

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

Prevalence of DEADLOCK_ENUM_MUTEX across the Spotlight Population

For 65 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is less than 11 ms

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

1350 instances contributed data to this chart

Latency Distribution of DEADLOCK_ENUM_MUTEX across the Spotlight Population