waiting for device semaphore
Short Description
If you are using Adaptive Server mirroring (that is, disable disk mirroring is set to 0), each disk device access must first hold the semaphore for that device. Event 70 measures the time spent waiting for that semaphore and can occur if disk I/O structures are too low.
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