Monday, December 18, 2006

Calculating Optimum Workspace Setting

Analyst uses the workspace setting to reserve part of your computer’s memory. The
setting should not normally exceed 50% of your system memory (e.g. 64,000 on a
128MgB PC).


Unless a D-Cube or Macro is struggling to open or run, respectively, there should be no
need to amend the default setting. However, you can gauge what the optimum
workspace setting should ideally be, based on the largest D-Cube.


Calculating the Optimum Workspace Setting
1. Multiply number of cells in largest D-Cube by 8 (1 cell = 8 bytes)
2. Divide the number of bytes by 1024 to get KB total
3. Double the result and enter this number in the Workspace field
4. Example: 1,500,000 * 8 / 1024 * 2 = 23,438