Used by a background task processing full-text search requests indicating it is waiting for work to do. You should be able to safely ignore unless some unexplained FTS issue. High wait times are normal
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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.
FT_IFTS_SCHEDULER_IDLE_WAIT
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 FT_IFTS_SCHEDULER_IDLE_WAIT?
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answered 3341 days ago
Iain Shepherd
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Full-text scheduler sleep wait type. The scheduler is idle. Information from Microsoft®
answered 3348 days ago
Spotlight Essentials
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Used by a background task processing full-text search requests indicating it is waiting for work to do.
answered 3341 days ago
Iain Shepherd
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This wait never occurs for most instances
For each of 4207 instances, we ranked FT_IFTS_SCHEDULER_IDLE_WAIT on how frequent it is compared to all other recent waits. The chart shows the total of all rankings.
Prevalence of FT_IFTS_SCHEDULER_IDLE_WAIT across the Spotlight Population
For 76 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is around 1 minutes
For each instance, we found all the recent hours when it had a FT_IFTS_SCHEDULER_IDLE_WAIT wait. We found the average latency for each of those hours.
733 instances contributed data to this chart