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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.

RESERVED_MEMORY_ALLOCATION_EXT

Category: Memory
SQL Server versions: 2016, 2017

What is RESERVED_MEMORY_ALLOCATION_EXT?

Very rare

This wait never occurs for most instances

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

Prevalence of RESERVED_MEMORY_ALLOCATION_EXT across the Spotlight Population

For 33 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is less than 0.00042 ms

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

928 instances contributed data to this chart

Latency Distribution of RESERVED_MEMORY_ALLOCATION_EXT across the Spotlight Population