What does a Status of Suspended and high DiskIO means from sp who2

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I m trying to troubleshoot some intermittent slowdowns in our application  I ve got a separate question here with more details     I ran sp who2 to and I ve noticed a few connections that have a status of SUSPENDED and high DiskIO  Can someone explain to me what that indicates

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Suspended  The session is waiting for an event  such as I O  to complete   http   msdn microsoft com en-us library ms174313 aspx

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This is a very broad question  so I am going to give a broad answer     A query gets suspended when it is requesting access to a resource that is currently not available  This can be a logical resource like a locked row or a physical resource like a memory data page  The query starts running again  once the resource becomes available  nbsp  High disk IO means that a lot of data pages need to be accessed to fulfill the request    That is all that I can tell from the above screenshot  However  if I were to speculate  you probably have an IO subsystem that is too slow to keep up with the demand  This could be caused by missing indexes or an actually too slow disk  Keep in mind  that 15000 reads for a single OLTP query is slightly high but not uncommon

[sql-server] What does a Status of "Suspended" and high DiskIO means from sp_who2?

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