Error messages

• Shahrukh Khan

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  March 26, 2007 at 12:45 am

  #61115

  I have been getting these error messages in the SQL Server logs for the past few weeks.  "Time out occurred while waiting for buffer latch type 4 for page",   "error 845, severity 17, state 1",    " WARNING ec6b96098, 2 waited 300 sec on latch 803f9c78. Not a BUF latch".  Are these just informational messages? Or is something serious happening on the server?

  Thank you

  Shahrukh Khan

• Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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  March 26, 2007 at 8:35 am

  #696886

  A latch is a type of lock and a timeout indicates that too much time expired. Are you getting errors from clients?

  Blocks/locks/timeouts are not serious. They indicate your server, usually hardware, is overloaded.