Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 04/13/06 01:32

laststubborn (arafatsalih@gmail.com) writes:
> Is it possible to change this deadlock killing time? for instance lets
> say instead of 5 min change it to 2 min??

A deadlock does not take five minutes to sort out. It seems that you
have a misconception of what a deadlock is. A deadlock is when two
processes are blocking each other, so none of them can continue. This
is something that SQL Server detects automatically. It usually takes a
couple of seconds.

But one long-running process can block other processes (than in their
turn can block other processes etc) without any deadlock to occur.

I would advice against any automatic killing, as supposedly some processes
are more important than others. It's better to analyse what those blockers
are up to, and if the queries can be improved, or indexes added to
speed up these queries.


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