Used to indicate a background task is waiting for "expired" timers for internal Xevent engine work.
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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_TIMER_EVENT
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_TIMER_EVENT?
1 Answer
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answered 3341 days ago
Iain Shepherd
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Can usually be safely ignored
– Alec Wood
3341 days ago
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This wait never occurs for most instances
For each of 4207 instances, we ranked XE_TIMER_EVENT on how frequent it is compared to all other recent waits. The chart shows the total of all rankings.
Prevalence of XE_TIMER_EVENT across the Spotlight Population
For 24 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is around 2.2 seconds
For each instance, we found all the recent hours when it had a XE_TIMER_EVENT wait. We found the average latency for each of those hours.
1152 instances contributed data to this chart