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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_SMALL_PAGE_ALLOC

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

What is SOS_SMALL_PAGE_ALLOC?

1 Answer

 

Occurs during the allocation and freeing of memory that is managed by some memory objects. Information from Microsoft®

Very rare

This wait never occurs for most instances

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

Prevalence of SOS_SMALL_PAGE_ALLOC across the Spotlight Population

For 90 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is less than 0.053 ms

For each instance, we found all the recent hours when it had a SOS_SMALL_PAGE_ALLOC wait. We found the average latency for each of those hours.

14 instances contributed data to this chart

Latency Distribution of SOS_SMALL_PAGE_ALLOC across the Spotlight Population