Occurs when a thread from the dispatcher pool is waiting for more work to process. The wait time for this wait type is expected to increase when the dispatcher is idle. Information from Microsoft®
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DISPATCHER_QUEUE_SEMAPHORE
Category: Idle
SQL Server versions: 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017
This is an idle wait and so it can be safely ignored.
What is DISPATCHER_QUEUE_SEMAPHORE?
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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 DISPATCHER_QUEUE_SEMAPHORE on how frequent it is compared to all other recent waits. The chart shows the total of all rankings.
Prevalence of DISPATCHER_QUEUE_SEMAPHORE across the Spotlight Population
For 71 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is less than 19 seconds
For each instance, we found all the recent hours when it had a DISPATCHER_QUEUE_SEMAPHORE wait. We found the average latency for each of those hours.
419 instances contributed data to this chart