Occurs during internal synchronization within SQL Server networking components. 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.
SNI_CRITICAL_SECTION
Category: Other
SQL Server versions: 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017
What is SNI_CRITICAL_SECTION?
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answered 3101 days ago
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This wait is somewhat common for most instances
For each of 4207 instances, we ranked SNI_CRITICAL_SECTION on how frequent it is compared to all other recent waits. The chart shows the total of all rankings.
Prevalence of SNI_CRITICAL_SECTION across the Spotlight Population
For 72 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is less than 0.026 ms
For each instance, we found all the recent hours when it had a SNI_CRITICAL_SECTION wait. We found the average latency for each of those hours.
3295 instances contributed data to this chart