I have been scouring the Internet for any information on the networkio wait type. Why? Because, I noticed that I have an issue with it on my database.

Thank you IMMENSELY for pointing me in the direction to start fixing this. I've been hounding my DBA for the past 3 weeks about network performance, but I could not prove my case. As a database developer, I can now solve the issue programmatically (which is my preferred method anyway) rather than through the addition of hardware.

The effects on my database server during the extended networkio waits --

My 4 CPUs stay pegged near 100% utilization

All other processes begin to crawl

The cascading performance degradation contributes to many other transaction failures

And, of course, my users are unhappy.

I plan to write a stored procedure to detect the situation and kill the offending process(es). I'll probably just schedule the procedure to run every 10 minutes or so to prevent runaway clients from taking over the server. When I finish the procedure, which will be soon since I have users to please, I'll post my results here.

I'll also spend some time profiling the existing networkio wait times to see what is "normal" on my system. I expect that the networkio wait should be ~much~ less than I'm seeing now.

Ultimately, after fixing the offensive client code and implementing my networkio monitoring procedure/job, I will investigate if additional NICs are required to keep up with the traffic.

Where did you find this information or did you figure this out on your own? I couldn't even get the wait type definitions from Microsoft; let alone what to do about them. However you got the information -- many, many thanks for valuable information NOT available anywhere else!!!