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Suspended status in SQL Activity Monitor


The wait type "Async_Network_IO" means that its waiting for the client to retrieve the result set as SQL Server's network buffer is full. Why your client isn't picking up the data in a timely manner I can't say.

The other case it can happen is with linked servers when SQL Server is querying a remote table, in this case SQL Server is waiting for the remote server to respond.

Something worth looking at is virus scanners, if they are monitoring network connections sometimes they can get lagged, its often apparent by them hogging all the CPU.


Suspended means it is waiting on a resource and will resume when it gets its resource. Judging from the sizes you are pulling back, it seems you are in an OLAP type of query.

Try the following things:

  1. Use NOLOCK or set the TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL at the top of the query
  2. Check your execution plan and tune the query to be more efficient