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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.
PREEMPTIVE_OS_GETPROCADDRESS
What is PREEMPTIVE_OS_GETPROCADDRESS?
This wait is very common for most instances
For each of 4207 instances, we ranked PREEMPTIVE_OS_GETPROCADDRESS on how frequent it is compared to all other recent waits. The chart shows the total of all rankings.
Prevalence of PREEMPTIVE_OS_GETPROCADDRESS across the Spotlight Population
For 78 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is less than 0.19 ms
For each instance, we found all the recent hours when it had a PREEMPTIVE_OS_GETPROCADDRESS wait. We found the average latency for each of those hours.
4050 instances contributed data to this chart