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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.

SQLCLR_QUANTUM_PUNISHMENT

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

What is SQLCLR_QUANTUM_PUNISHMENT?

1 Answer

 

Occurs when a CLR task is throttled because it has exceeded its execution quantum. This throttling is done in order to reduce the effect of this resource-intensive task on other tasks. Information from Microsoft®

Very rare

This wait never occurs for most instances

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

Prevalence of SQLCLR_QUANTUM_PUNISHMENT across the Spotlight Population

For 82 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is less than 0.036 ms

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

16 instances contributed data to this chart

Latency Distribution of SQLCLR_QUANTUM_PUNISHMENT across the Spotlight Population