Occurs when transaction log scans wait for memory to be available during memory pressure. Information from Microsoft®
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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.
UTIL_PAGE_ALLOC
Category: Log
SQL Server versions: 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017
What is UTIL_PAGE_ALLOC?
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answered 3318 days ago
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This wait never occurs for most instances
For each of 4207 instances, we ranked UTIL_PAGE_ALLOC on how frequent it is compared to all other recent waits. The chart shows the total of all rankings.
Prevalence of UTIL_PAGE_ALLOC across the Spotlight Population
For 100 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is above 6 seconds
For each instance, we found all the recent hours when it had a UTIL_PAGE_ALLOC wait. We found the average latency for each of those hours.
1 instance contributed data to this chart