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XE_DISPATCHER_CONFIG_SESSION_LIST

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

What is XE_DISPATCHER_CONFIG_SESSION_LIST?

1 Answer

 

Occurs when an Extended Events session that is using asynchronous targets is started or stopped. This wait indicates either of the following:

  • An Extended Events session is registering with a background thread pool.
  • The background thread pool is calculating the required number of threads based on current load. Information from Microsoft®
Very rare

This wait never occurs for most instances

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

Prevalence of XE_DISPATCHER_CONFIG_SESSION_LIST across the Spotlight Population

For 86 % 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 XE_DISPATCHER_CONFIG_SESSION_LIST wait. We found the average latency for each of those hours.

78 instances contributed data to this chart

Latency Distribution of XE_DISPATCHER_CONFIG_SESSION_LIST across the Spotlight Population