• allmhuran (3/8/2013)


    GilaMonster (3/8/2013)


    sys.dm_os_wait_stats

    Most of those are meaningless waits, background processes that are supposed to be waiting. That list says nothing of any value.

    Yep, that's kinda the point I'm making by noting that iolatch is down at 12th under all of this. 🙂

    You're missing my point. Those waits are ones you ignore completely. Saying that IOLatch waits are 12th under that list means they're the second top useful wait in the system. Those background waits are normal and expected to be high, they're from processes that spend most of their time doing nothing, so you just filter them out of any wait analysis.

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