Accounts for the time a thread waits to acquire the mutex it must acquire before it allocates physical pages or before it returns those pages to the operating system. Waits on this type only appear if the instance of SQL Server uses AWE memory. 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.
SOS_PHYS_PAGE_CACHE
Category: Other
SQL Server versions: 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017
What is SOS_PHYS_PAGE_CACHE?
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answered 3318 days ago
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This wait never occurs for most instances
For each of 4207 instances, we ranked SOS_PHYS_PAGE_CACHE on how frequent it is compared to all other recent waits. The chart shows the total of all rankings.
Prevalence of SOS_PHYS_PAGE_CACHE across the Spotlight Population
For 17 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is around 1 ms
For each instance, we found all the recent hours when it had a SOS_PHYS_PAGE_CACHE wait. We found the average latency for each of those hours.
535 instances contributed data to this chart