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DISKIO_SUSPEND

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

What is DISKIO_SUSPEND?

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Occurs when a task is waiting to access a file when an external backup is active. This is reported for each waiting user process. A count larger than five per user process may indicate that the external backup is taking too much time to finish. Information from Microsoft®

 

Used to indicate a worker is waiting to process I/O for a database or log file associated with a SNAPSHOT BACKUP

Never

This wait has never occurred recently

DISKIO_SUSPEND has not occurred recently on 4207 instances checked.

Prevalence of DISKIO_SUSPEND across the Spotlight Population