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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.

LOGMGR_RESERVE_APPEND

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

What is LOGMGR_RESERVE_APPEND?

1 Answer

 

Occurs when a task is waiting to see whether log truncation frees up log space to enable the task to write a new log record. Consider increasing the size of the log file(s) for the affected database to reduce this wait. Information from Microsoft®

Very rare

This wait never occurs for most instances

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

Prevalence of LOGMGR_RESERVE_APPEND across the Spotlight Population

For 92 % 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 LOGMGR_RESERVE_APPEND wait. We found the average latency for each of those hours.

34 instances contributed data to this chart

Latency Distribution of LOGMGR_RESERVE_APPEND across the Spotlight Population