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®
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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?
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answered 3109 days ago
Spotlight Essentials
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Used to indicate a worker has yielded to let other workers run on a scheduler.
answered 3095 days ago
Iain Shepherd
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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