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®
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DEADLOCK_ENUM_MUTEX
Category: Lock
SQL Server versions: 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017
What is DEADLOCK_ENUM_MUTEX?
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answered 3318 days ago
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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