17120

Product

Name

Event ID

17120

Event Source

MSSQLSERVER

Component

SQLEngine

Symbolic

Name

INIT_SPAWN

Message Text

could not spawn %s thread. Check the SQL Server error log and the operating

system error log for information about possible related problems.

Error 17120 is raised when a thread that performs system or background tasks fails to be

created. Examples of background tasks include Checkpoint, Lazy Writer, Database Recovery

task, Log Reader, Log Writer, Auto shrink task, Communication manager, Parallel Redo worker

task, and many more. The

in the error contains the name of the task. Here are examples of

how this error may appear in the error logs:

Output

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Error: 17120, Severity: 16, State: 1.
could not spawn checkpoint thread. Check the SQL Server error log and the operating system error log for information about possible related problems.
Error: 17120, Severity: 16, State: 1.
could not spawn FRunCommunicationsManager thread. Check the SQL Server