Developing Essbase Applications

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Notice that the current index cache value is now twice as large as the physical

index size. BSO will claim whatever is specied up to the limit of 4,294,967,295 bytes.

IfMEMSCALING is specied in the conguration le, the limit is extended for 64 bit.

Periodically review the index cache size and update the cache accordingly.

4.6.2

Data Cache

Before discussing the data cache, it is important to understand compression and how

it relates to the cache. Physical data blocks are stored in the ESS*. PAG le(s) in com-

pressed form assuming that some lunatic has not turned o compression. ere are

three types ...