> [!HashGrowBucketsElect] > <table><tr><td rowspan="4" width="25%"><img src="assets/wl_ipc_hashgrowbucketselect.png"></td><td><b>Wait Category</b></td><td>IPC</td></tr><tr><td><b>Mechanism</b></td><td><code>HashGrowBucketsElect</code></td></tr><tr><td><b>Operations</b></td><td><a href="Operations/Joins/HashJoin">HashJoin</a></td></tr><tr><td><b>Resources</b></td><td><a href="Resources/RAM">Memory</a>, <a href="Resources/CPU">CPU</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3">Contention on <b>Hash Table Resize Election</b>. When the shared hash table's load factor becomes too high, workers must wait for a single leader to be elected to double the number of buckets in memory, improving future lookup performance.</td></tr></table>