Occurs when a query memory request cannot be granted immediately due to other concurrent queries. High waits and wait times may indicate excessive number of concurrent queries, or excessive memory request amounts. Information from Microsoft®
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RESOURCE_SEMAPHORE
Category: Memory
SQL Server versions: 2000, 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017
What is RESOURCE_SEMAPHORE?
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answered 3318 days ago
Spotlight Essentials
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Used to indicate a worker is waiting to be allowed to perform an operation requiring "query memory" such as hashes and sorts.
answered 3311 days ago
Iain Shepherd
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This wait never occurs for most instances
For each of 4207 instances, we ranked RESOURCE_SEMAPHORE on how frequent it is compared to all other recent waits. The chart shows the total of all rankings.
Prevalence of RESOURCE_SEMAPHORE across the Spotlight Population
For 80 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is less than 23 seconds
For each instance, we found all the recent hours when it had a RESOURCE_SEMAPHORE wait. We found the average latency for each of those hours.
325 instances contributed data to this chart