Occurs while allocating memory from either the internal SQL Server memory pool or the operation system. 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.
MEMORY_ALLOCATION_EXT
Category: Memory
SQL Server versions: 2016, 2017
What is MEMORY_ALLOCATION_EXT?
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answered 3318 days ago
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This wait never occurs for most instances
For each of 4207 instances, we ranked MEMORY_ALLOCATION_EXT on how frequent it is compared to all other recent waits. The chart shows the total of all rankings.
Prevalence of MEMORY_ALLOCATION_EXT across the Spotlight Population
For 11 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is around 0.0029 ms
For each instance, we found all the recent hours when it had a MEMORY_ALLOCATION_EXT wait. We found the average latency for each of those hours.
928 instances contributed data to this chart