Occurs when a task is waiting for all outstanding I/O to complete, so that I/O to a file can be frozen for snapshot backup. 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.
REQUEST_DISPENSER_PAUSE
Category: Idle
SQL Server versions: 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017
This is an idle wait and so it can be safely ignored.
What is REQUEST_DISPENSER_PAUSE?
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answered 3348 days ago
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This wait never occurs for most instances
For each of 4207 instances, we ranked REQUEST_DISPENSER_PAUSE on how frequent it is compared to all other recent waits. The chart shows the total of all rankings.
Prevalence of REQUEST_DISPENSER_PAUSE across the Spotlight Population
For 90 % 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 REQUEST_DISPENSER_PAUSE wait. We found the average latency for each of those hours.
24 instances contributed data to this chart