Monday, February 20, 2012

Locks in tempdb

I am runninga stored procedure on a test box (1GB CPU and 500MB RAM) and it
takes about 20 minutes. The locks max out at about 2400 (sp_lock). I run it
on a production box and it is taking hours and in some cases not even coming
close to finishing. The locks on the production box keep going up. The last
time I issued a kill command there were 20000 locks for this bad spid.
The test box does not have anything running on it besides anti virus
software. The production box does have some very low intensive stuff running
on it.
- The procedure in question is using dynamic sql
- I set SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ UNCOMMITTED
Does anyone have any obvious rabbit holes I could go down?
Thanks,
Mikeare u using some syntax such as
select xxx into #abc from xyz '
that will definitely create lots of lock in tempdb.
If so, try avoid it.
Kan
"Mike S" <sagaeta@.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I am runninga stored procedure on a test box (1GB CPU and 500MB RAM) and
it
> takes about 20 minutes. The locks max out at about 2400 (sp_lock). I run
it
> on a production box and it is taking hours and in some cases not even
coming
> close to finishing. The locks on the production box keep going up. The
last
> time I issued a kill command there were 20000 locks for this bad spid.
> The test box does not have anything running on it besides anti virus
> software. The production box does have some very low intensive stuff
running
> on it.
> - The procedure in question is using dynamic sql
> - I set SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ UNCOMMITTED
> Does anyone have any obvious rabbit holes I could go down?
> Thanks,
> Mike
>|||Could you post the proc in question? It could be any number of things.
Mark Allison, SQL Server MVP
http://www.markallison.co.uk
"Mike S" <sagaeta@.yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:edvn8ILKEHA.1156@.TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> I am runninga stored procedure on a test box (1GB CPU and 500MB RAM) and
it
> takes about 20 minutes. The locks max out at about 2400 (sp_lock). I run
it
> on a production box and it is taking hours and in some cases not even
coming
> close to finishing. The locks on the production box keep going up. The
last
> time I issued a kill command there were 20000 locks for this bad spid.
> The test box does not have anything running on it besides anti virus
> software. The production box does have some very low intensive stuff
running
> on it.
> - The procedure in question is using dynamic sql
> - I set SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ UNCOMMITTED
> Does anyone have any obvious rabbit holes I could go down?
> Thanks,
> Mike
>

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