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LOGMGR_QUEUE

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 LOGMGR_QUEUE?

2 Answers

 

Occurs while the log writer task waits for work requests. Information from Microsoft®

This wait type is not a wait indicating I/O bottlenecks. It is only for waiting for other workers to request log block flushes – Alec Wood 3311 days ago
 

Used by the background worker "Log Writer" to wait on a queue for requests to flush log blocks to the transaction log.

Very rare

This wait never occurs for most instances

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

Prevalence of LOGMGR_QUEUE across the Spotlight Population

For 85 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is less than 490 ms

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

1152 instances contributed data to this chart

Latency Distribution of LOGMGR_QUEUE across the Spotlight Population