Occurs when a task is waiting on a latch for a buffer that is not in an I/O request. The latch request is in Keep mode. Information from Microsoft®
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PAGELATCH_KP
Category: IO
SQL Server versions: 2000, 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017
What is PAGELATCH_KP?
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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 PAGELATCH_KP on how frequent it is compared to all other recent waits. The chart shows the total of all rankings.
Prevalence of PAGELATCH_KP across the Spotlight Population
For 93 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is less than 0.013 ms
For each instance, we found all the recent hours when it had a PAGELATCH_KP wait. We found the average latency for each of those hours.
551 instances contributed data to this chart