• That's an internal process. It's not the cause of your issue. I'd suggest you look for blocked or blocking processes or non-system processes. Also, generally, I don't suggest using sp_who or sp_who2. Instead run queries against sys.dm_exec_requests and the associated dynamic management views. You can get a lot more detail on long running or blocked/blocking processes that way.

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