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jbrown7232
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Posted - 2010-07-01 : 16:22:43
When running SP_WHo2 Active command. I notice that 8 of my 33 SPIDS have a status of Background and command of LAZY WRITER and CPUTime of 398918425 and DISK IO of 94074905

Is this normal to have 8 SPIDS that are a month old sitting there for over a month with High numbers for CPU and DISK IO?

GilaMonster
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

4507 Posts

Posted - 2010-07-01 : 17:00:26
those background SPIDs are system processes. They start when SQL starts and don't terminate until SQL stops. Taken over a month, that's not a lot of CPU and IO. Besides, the lazywriter's job is to write data to disk. Hence it's going to have a lot of IOs.

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