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The description shown below is the top answer as voted by the Spotlight community.

The charts are based on 2.1 TB of data collected from 4207 instances uploaded by 323 Spotlight users over an 8 week period.

FSAGENT

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 FSAGENT?

1 Answer

 

Occurs when a FILESTREAM file I/O operation is waiting for a FILESTREAM agent resource that is being used by another file I/O operation. Information from Microsoft®
Very rare

This wait never occurs for most instances

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

Prevalence of FSAGENT across the Spotlight Population

For 71 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is less than 5.7 minutes

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

1 instance contributed data to this chart

Latency Distribution of FSAGENT across the Spotlight Population