July 25, 2006 at 8:36 pm
I believe it's because some of the system owned spids are doing work in the background. On a dead quiet system, SQL Server has a "heartbeat" that occurs about once every 5 or 6 seconds that can be seen in the Performance tab of Windows Task Manager (at least in XP).
--Jeff Moden
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October 12, 2007 at 7:29 am
@steve-2: Thank you for sharing this knowledge and instigating a great dialogue. I have dived into perf tuning and trying to swim much deeper than I've been given the opportunity to in the past, so this has been a valuable find for me. @jeff Moden: This CPU time with the process id code, way cool, thank you so much for that and for the heads up on SysProcesses.
December 17, 2007 at 1:05 pm
Obviously a very stimulating article, Steve - kudos. 🙂
I too used it as a starting point for how to track the total time that a proc was taking to run, and discovered valuable input from others who posted in this thread on the different metrics available.
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