Could not kill one spid - PREEMPTIVE_XE_SESSIONCOMMIT

Question

Dear DBA's,
Today I had a problem in my SQL 2008 R2 (10.50.2796) instance.
There's na every day Job where I stop one server audit, import some audit files to a table and then start it again. Yesterday night there was a problem in the step 1, which has the following statement:
ALTER SERVER AUDIT myAuditName WITH (STATE = OFF)
This process didn't finish and started blocking other processes, such as backup to this database, and locked users access to this system.
I tried to kill it today morning and got the message.
SPID 122: transaction rollback in progress. Estimated rollback completion: 0%. Estimated time remaining: 0 seconds.
Saw the wait type and it was PREEMPTIVE_XE_SESSIONCOMMIT
The solution was to restart the SQL Server in the SQL Server Configuration Manager.
Has anyone passed through this? Do you know the solution? Does some CU or Service Pack correct this?
Thanks in advance,
DBA Cabuloso
Lucas Benevides    

Answer 1

Dear Satish,
I don't think so. The KB you refered is about Extended Events session. I didn't use any of these, I used the ALTER SERVER AUDIT. Although the problem had the same solution (restart the service) it didn't was the same problem.
Thank you for trying anyway.
DBA Cabuloso
SQL Audit uses extended events behind the scenes, so yes, in-fact, you do use extended events :)
Sean Gallardy | Blog | Microsoft Certified Master