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The 'affinity mask' and 'affinity I/O mask' configuration should not conflict
The 'affinity mask' and 'affinity I/O mask' configuration values of SQL Server should not conflict. Performance may suffer if you choose to affinitize a processor for both SQL Server worker thread scheduling and for I/O processing. Therefore, you should ensure that the configuration values are not set for the same processor. The same recommendation applies to the 'affinity64 mask' and 'affinity64 I/O mask'.
If these configuration values do conflict, when you try to run the RECONFIGURE command, the following error will occur:
Msg 5834, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
The affinity mask specified conflicts with the IO affinity mask specified. Use the override option to force this configuration
You would have to execute RECONFIGURE WITH OVERRIDE to allow these settings to be used for the next restart.
For more information about the products or tools that automatically check for this condition on your instance of SQL Server and on the versions of the SQL Server product, see the following table
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| Rule software | Rule title | Rule description | Product versions against which the rule is evaluated |
SQL Server 2008 R2 Best Practice Analyzer (SQL Server 2008 R2 BPA)
| Conflicting affinity mask settings detected
| The SQL Server 2008 R2 Best Practice Analyzer (SQL Server 2008 R2 BPA) provides a rule to detect a conflict with the 'affinity mask' and 'affinity I/O mask' configuration. The SQL Server 2008 R2 BPA supports both SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2.
If you run the BPA tool and encounter an Error with the title of Engine - Conflicting affinity mask settings detected, then your SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2008 R2 installation has a has a conflict with the 'affinity mask' and 'affinity I/O mask' values (and 'affinity64mask' and 'affinity64 I/O mask') as found in sys.configurations (the "value_in_use"). BPA uses SMO to find the run value of this configuration. | SQL Server 2008
SQL Server 2008 R2
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SQL Server 2012 Best Practice Analyzer (SQL Server 2012 BPA)
| Conflicting affinity mask settings detected
| The SQL Server 2012 Best Practice Analyzer (SQL Server 2012 BPA) provides a rule to detect a conflict with the 'affinity mask' and 'affinity I/O mask' configuration.
If you run the BPA tool and encounter an Error with the title of Engine - Conflicting affinity mask settings detected, then your SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2008 R2 installation has a has a conflict with the 'affinity mask' and 'affinity I/O mask' values (and 'affinity64mask' and 'affinity64 I/O mask') as found in sys.configurations (the "value_in_use"). BPA uses SMO to find the run value of this configuration. | SQL Server 2012
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