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latch: session allocation

Short Description

This occurs when a process allocates a new session.

Detailed Description​

Steve Adams notes on latch: session allocation:

The session allocation latch covers a multitude of sins.  There are 2 possibilities:

This is a secondary problem due to other waits while holding these latches, and these sleeps will go away if we can solve the real problem.

Application level tuning is needed to reduce the number of calls generally, and the number of session switches in particular.

How to reduce this wait​

Not available yet. Contributions welcome.

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