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FT_RESTART_CRAWL

Category: Idle

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

This is an idle wait and so it can be safely ignored.

1 Answer

	Occurs when a full-text crawl needs to restart from a last known good point to recover from a transient failure. The wait lets the worker tasks currently working on that population to complete or exit the current step. Information from Microsoft® answered 3318 days ago Spotlight Essentials

This wait has never occurred recently

FT_RESTART_CRAWL has not occurred recently on 4207 instances checked.