Auto-suspend Virtual Warehouses
AutoSuspend Timeout is an option you can set while creating a Virtual Warehouse. Understand how the auto-suspend timeout option works along with the auto-scaling settings on a Virtual Warehouse.
What is auto-suspend
AutoSuspend Timeout enables you to handle resources when the auto-scaler has scaled back to the last executor group. You can control the time that the original warehouse executor group idles after all other groups scale down and release their executors. The JDBC endpoint lives on to respond to queries from the result cache or statistics, but expensive executors no longer run.
How auto-suspend works
You set an auto-suspend timeout to configure how long a Virtual Warehouse idles before shutting down. Auto-suspend timeout is independent of the auto-scaling process and only applies to the original Virtual Warehouse and not to any additional warehouses that are created as a result of auto-scaling.
When no queries are sent to an executor group, resources scale down and executors are released. When all executor groups are scaled back, when executors are idle, and after a period of idle time (AutoSuspend Timeout), the Virtual Warehouse is suspended.
AutoSuspend Timeout sets the maximum time that the original warehouse executor group idles after all other executor groups have scaled down and released their resources. The JDBC endpoint is kept up and alive to keep the application connectivity and even respond to queries from the result cache or statistics where possible.
If a query is sent to a suspended Virtual Warehouse and if it cannot be answered from query result cache or statistics, then the query coordinator queues the query. When a queued query is detected, an executor group is immediately added to run the query on the Virtual Warehouse.
By default, auto-suspend is enabled. You can disable it by turning on the Disable AutoSuspend option.
