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Power BI high memory consumption when creating measures
When creating measures in Power BI it causes Power BI's memory consumption to increase dramatically. I have a fairly complex model with several hundred measures and after opening the file and creatin...
Funny, I noticed the same thing happening. A small file of 2MB exploded into 11GB of RAM when opening Power BI Desktop (from App store) after what appeared the March update. I have been uninstalling and reinstalling the App with varying levels of success and improvement, but this morning it is back again in full force.
I should also mention that I have hardly any measures in this file and no visuals!
My only other idea is to install Power BI from the download and see what happens. Will post it here if I see a change in behaviour...
Here is a snap of the file on disk and what happens to RAM when I open it.