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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.
RESOURCE_GOVERNOR_IDLE
This is an idle wait and so it can be safely ignored.
What is RESOURCE_GOVERNOR_IDLE?
This wait never occurs for most instances
For each of 4207 instances, we ranked RESOURCE_GOVERNOR_IDLE on how frequent it is compared to all other recent waits. The chart shows the total of all rankings.
Prevalence of RESOURCE_GOVERNOR_IDLE across the Spotlight Population
For 32 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is around 3.8 ms
For each instance, we found all the recent hours when it had a RESOURCE_GOVERNOR_IDLE wait. We found the average latency for each of those hours.
1 instance contributed data to this chart