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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.

PAGELATCH_UP

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

What is PAGELATCH_UP?

1 Answer

 

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 Update mode. Information from Microsoft®

Somewhat common

This wait is somewhat common for most instances

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

Prevalence of PAGELATCH_UP across the Spotlight Population

For 72 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is less than 0.25 ms

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

3696 instances contributed data to this chart

Latency Distribution of PAGELATCH_UP across the Spotlight Population