Large waiting time on this resource indicates that the server is executing queries on top of sys.dm_os_waiting_tasks, and these queries are blocking deadlock monitor from running deadlock search. This wait type is used by deadlock monitor only. Queries on top of sys.dm_os_waiting_tasks use DEADLOCK_ENUM_MUTEX. Information from Microsoft®
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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_TASK_SEARCH
Category: Lock
SQL Server versions: 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017
What is DEADLOCK_TASK_SEARCH?
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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_TASK_SEARCH on how frequent it is compared to all other recent waits. The chart shows the total of all rankings.
Prevalence of DEADLOCK_TASK_SEARCH across the Spotlight Population
For 86 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is less than 1.6 ms
For each instance, we found all the recent hours when it had a DEADLOCK_TASK_SEARCH wait. We found the average latency for each of those hours.
322 instances contributed data to this chart