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SOS_SCHEDULER_YIELD

Category: CPU
SQL Server versions: 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017

What is SOS_SCHEDULER_YIELD?

2 Answers

 

Occurs when a task voluntarily yields the scheduler for other tasks to execute. During this wait the task is waiting for its quantum to be renewed. Information from Microsoft®

 

Used to indicate a worker has yielded to let other workers run on a scheduler.

Very common

This wait is very common for most instances

For each of 4207 instances, we ranked SOS_SCHEDULER_YIELD on how frequent it is compared to all other recent waits. The chart shows the total of all rankings.

Prevalence of SOS_SCHEDULER_YIELD across the Spotlight Population

For 64 % 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 SOS_SCHEDULER_YIELD wait. We found the average latency for each of those hours.

4191 instances contributed data to this chart

Latency Distribution of SOS_SCHEDULER_YIELD across the Spotlight Population