Occurs while a query waits for its request for a thread reservation to be fulfilled. It also occurs when synchronizing query compile and memory grant requests. 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.
RESOURCE_SEMAPHORE_MUTEX
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 RESOURCE_SEMAPHORE_MUTEX?
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answered 3101 days ago
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This wait never occurs for most instances
For each of 4207 instances, we ranked RESOURCE_SEMAPHORE_MUTEX on how frequent it is compared to all other recent waits. The chart shows the total of all rankings.
Prevalence of RESOURCE_SEMAPHORE_MUTEX across the Spotlight Population
For 82 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is less than 0.06 ms
For each instance, we found all the recent hours when it had a RESOURCE_SEMAPHORE_MUTEX wait. We found the average latency for each of those hours.
385 instances contributed data to this chart