monProcessWaits

Description

Provides a list of all wait events for which current processes on the server are waiting. Returns only wait events whose Waits value is greater than zero.

Enable the enable monitoring, wait event timing, and process wait events, configuration parameters for this monitoring table to collect data.

Columns

The columns for monProcessWaits are:

Name

Datatype

Attribute

Description

SPID

smallint

Session process identifier

InstanceID

int

(Cluster environments only) ID of an instance in a shared-disk cluster.

KPID

int

Kernel process identifier

ServerUserID

int

Server user ID (SUID) of the user associated with this process.

WaitEventID

smallint

Unique identifier for the wait event

Waits

int

Counter

Number of times the process has waited for the event

WaitTime

int

Counter

Amount of time, in milliseconds, that the process has waited for the event

WaitEventInfo contains descriptions of each wait event. Join the WaitEventID column from each monitor table to view this data.

See Performance and Tuning: Monitoring Tables for a descriptions of select wait events.