## TL;DR

If it recurs at steady load, the fix is more TiKV capacity, not more retries. Check the TiKV status, monitoring data and logs to find the hotspot: unbalanced regions, too many concurrent scans, or disk IO saturation.

## The error

```text
ERROR 9003 (HY000) TiKV Server is Busy under high load
```

## Fix

1. If it recurs at steady load, the fix is more TiKV capacity, not more retries.
   Expected: You get the expected result; the problem is gone.
2. Re-run the original operation and confirm the error is gone.
   Expected: no error, normal output.

## When to use

- You hit this exact error with TiDB Cloud.
- The symptom matches: ERROR 9003 (HY000) TiKV Server is Busy under high load.

## When NOT to use

- A different error message from TiDB Cloud; the cause here is specific to this error.
- Unrelated TiDB Cloud issues (different feature, different failure).
- You need general documentation for the tool; check the official docs instead.

## Compatibility

Reported against TiDB Cloud. Source: https://github.com/pingcap/docs/blob/HEAD/error-codes.md.

## Variant phrasings

### ERROR 9003 (HY000) TiKV Server is Busy under high load

## Why it happens

Queries to TiDB Cloud fail with ERROR 9003 (HY000): TiKV Server is Busy. This occurs when the TiKV workload is too high to keep up with incoming requests.

## Edge cases

- If your error message differs even slightly, this is probably a different issue; search the exact text.
- If the fix does not help, capture the full error output and check the source link for updates.

## Source

https://github.com/pingcap/docs/blob/HEAD/error-codes.md

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