Occurs while waiting for I/O operations to complete. This wait type generally represents non-data page I/Os. Data page I/O completion waits appear as PAGEIOLATCH_* waits. Information from Microsoft®
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IO_COMPLETION
Category: IO
SQL Server versions: 2000, 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017
What is IO_COMPLETION?
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answered 3318 days ago
Spotlight Essentials
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Used to indicate a wait for I/O for operation (typically synchronous) like sorts and various situations where the engine needs to do a synchronous I/O
answered 3311 days ago
Iain Shepherd
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This wait is very common for most instances
For each of 4207 instances, we ranked IO_COMPLETION on how frequent it is compared to all other recent waits. The chart shows the total of all rankings.
Prevalence of IO_COMPLETION across the Spotlight Population
For 42 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is less than 0.31 ms
For each instance, we found all the recent hours when it had a IO_COMPLETION wait. We found the average latency for each of those hours.
3615 instances contributed data to this chart