Occurs when a background thread that is used for Extended Events sessions is waiting for event buffers to process. 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.
XE_DISPATCHER_WAIT
Category: Idle
SQL Server versions: 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017
This is an idle wait and so it can be safely ignored.
What is XE_DISPATCHER_WAIT?
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answered 3119 days ago
Spotlight Essentials
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Used by a background worker to handle queue requests to write out buffers for async targets
answered 3112 days ago
Iain Shepherd
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This wait never occurs for most instances
For each of 4207 instances, we ranked XE_DISPATCHER_WAIT on how frequent it is compared to all other recent waits. The chart shows the total of all rankings.
Prevalence of XE_DISPATCHER_WAIT across the Spotlight Population
For 34 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is around 4.7 seconds
For each instance, we found all the recent hours when it had a XE_DISPATCHER_WAIT wait. We found the average latency for each of those hours.
1142 instances contributed data to this chart