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dev2dev
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Posted - 2008-04-16 : 10:17:44
Hello,

I am DB Developer (not admin), excuse me if this is a silly question.

I don't know much about CHECKPOINT background But I feel, this process is slowing down performance of my sps which runs slower than normal in some cases.

Especially when I see any of my process goes in the suspended mode and its wait type is SLEEP_BPOOL_FLUSH and CHECKPOINTs process is also suspended and its wait type is CHECKPOINT_QUEUE.

More important anything else is... this background process (which I always find its spid is 11) BLOCKS all other user processes when it goes into suspended mode and its wait type is SLEEP_BPOOL_FLUSH

I dont know my analysis is correct (claiming checkpoint as culprit), need experts advice and help

can someone give info on checkpoint and how this effect server performance

sodeep
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Posted - 2008-04-16 : 16:19:15
Did you check what statement that spid is running? DBCC inputbuffer(spid).?
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rmiao
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Posted - 2008-04-16 : 22:27:01
Checkpoint is system process that freshs changed data from memory to disk. Check disk i/o on the server, may need faster storage.
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dev2dev
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Posted - 2008-04-17 : 08:58:46
how often this process runs? I am curious to know when it goes into SLEEP_BPOOL_FLUSH wait type. Because always i seen this process in this wait type blocks all other my process
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rmiao
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Posted - 2008-04-17 : 22:46:19
Every minute by default. SLEEP_BPOOL_FLUSH occurs when a checkpoint is throttling the issuance of new I/Os in order to avoid flooding the disk subsystem, seems disk bottleneck.
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