Occurs when a memory allocation waits for a resource manager to free up virtual memory. Information from Microsoft®
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The description shown below is the top answer as voted by the Spotlight community.
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_VIRTUALMEMORY_LOW
Category: Memory
SQL Server versions: 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017
What is SOS_VIRTUALMEMORY_LOW?
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answered 3348 days ago
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This wait never occurs for most instances
For each of 4207 instances, we ranked SOS_VIRTUALMEMORY_LOW on how frequent it is compared to all other recent waits. The chart shows the total of all rankings.
Prevalence of SOS_VIRTUALMEMORY_LOW across the Spotlight Population
For 56 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is around 180 ms
For each instance, we found all the recent hours when it had a SOS_VIRTUALMEMORY_LOW wait. We found the average latency for each of those hours.
4 instances contributed data to this chart