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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?

3 Answers

 

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

 

Full-text scheduler sleep wait type. The scheduler is idle. Information from Microsoft®

 

Used by a background task processing full-text search requests indicating it is waiting for work to do.

Very rare

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

Latency Distribution of FT_IFTS_SCHEDULER_IDLE_WAIT across the Spotlight Population