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Nishantjain
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7 years ago

Power BI Premium Metrics App - Dataset Memory consumption

Hi there, 

 

In the Power BI Premium Metrics App's tab "Dataset" and button "dataset", I see my dataset to have ~250MB of max memory. However when I load the same dataset on my computer, the task manager ~2GB memory. Why are these different?

 

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Nishant

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  • v-juanli-msft's avatar
    v-juanli-msft
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    7 years ago

    Hi Nishantjain 

    When you import data to Powre BI, Power BI compresses the data and create a dataset.

    So it is different of size for datasets in Power BI and data source.

     

    Best Regards

    Maggie

    • Nishantjain's avatar
      Nishantjain
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      7 years ago

      v-juanli-msft 

       

      Thanks for your response Maggie. I understand how the compression works with Power BI desktop. I am struggling to understand how it works in RAM. 

       

      I am trying to understand how the size of the dataset impacts the performance of the premium node. When I look at the "Premium Node Metrics App", it shows the "Max size" of the dataset. I am not sure how to interpret that size. 

       

      Nishant