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Dealing with Non-Yielding Schedulers

Sean Gallardy breaks up the party:

One of the most common items that will cause a memory dump in SQL Server is a non-yielding scheduler (generally referred to as NYS). What the heck does that mean? Why would it cause a memory dump? Is there anything that can be investigated? Good questions, let’s take a look.

Read on to learn what these are, why they’re not something you want to deal with on a regular basis, and how you can get more information on what happened out of a dump file. Which is also going to be helpful for Microsoft staff to diagnose and correct the underlying issue (if possible).