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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.

LCK_M_S

Category: Lock
SQL Server versions: 2000, 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017

What is LCK_M_S?

1 Answer

 

Occurs when a task is waiting to acquire a Shared lock. Information from Microsoft®
Somewhat common

This wait is somewhat common for most instances

For each of 4207 instances, we ranked LCK_M_S on how frequent it is compared to all other recent waits. The chart shows the total of all rankings.

Prevalence of LCK_M_S across the Spotlight Population

For 83 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is less than 55 ms

For each instance, we found all the recent hours when it had a LCK_M_S wait. We found the average latency for each of those hours.

2745 instances contributed data to this chart

Latency Distribution of LCK_M_S across the Spotlight Population