I have some BlitzFirst Wait Stats that look as follows:
Is this the proper way to interpret this? During the 30 second sample, there were a total of 627.1 seconds of IO_Completion waiting, an average of .5 waits per core per second and a total of 20,723 of these waits, each averaging 30.3 MS?
Also, I am not using the Since Startup option.
Best Answer
So let's do a quick rundown of your top two waits:
In 30 seconds, your queries spent 1,655 seconds waiting on storage.
Your storage is probably slow - if you skip down to the next section in sp_BlitzFirst's output, it will show which data and log files SQL Server was waiting on, and for how long. However, before you leap to playing Pin The Blame On The SAN Administrator, consider: