Occurs when lazywriter tasks are suspended. This is a measure of the time spent by background tasks that are waiting. Do not consider this state when you are looking for user stalls. Information from Microsoft®
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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.
LAZYWRITER_SLEEP
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.
What is LAZYWRITER_SLEEP?
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answered 3348 days ago
Spotlight Essentials
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Used by the Lazywriter background worker to indicate it is sleeping waiting to wake up and check for work to do
answered 3335 days ago
Iain Shepherd
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This wait never occurs for most instances
For each of 4207 instances, we ranked LAZYWRITER_SLEEP on how frequent it is compared to all other recent waits. The chart shows the total of all rankings.
Prevalence of LAZYWRITER_SLEEP across the Spotlight Population
For 62 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is around 990 ms
For each instance, we found all the recent hours when it had a LAZYWRITER_SLEEP wait. We found the average latency for each of those hours.
1203 instances contributed data to this chart