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FIX: Power BI Memory error allocation failure
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Updated onJuly 9, 2024
updated onJuly 9, 2024
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Power BI is a fantastic tool from Microsoft, and while itmay not be the stablestsoftware tool of its kind, it’s admittedly still new and under active development.
Thememoryallocation failureerrorinPower BIusually occurs if the system does not have enoughmemoryto process the task at hand.
You can try to close some apps,allocate more memoryor make edits to the original table to fix thiserroras reported by the users in thePower BI Community.
HiI have created a pbix file in 64bit machine. File Size: 22 MB. Rows: 5.5 Million Approx.Data is fetched from MYSQL Database.While I try to open the same file in a 32-bit machine, an error message pops up“Failed to save Modification to the server.Errorreturned: Memory Error : Allocation Faliure. If you are using 32 bit version of the product,consider upgrading to the 64 bit version or increasing the amount ofmemoryavailable on the machine”.
Follow the troubleshooting tips in this article to fixPower BIallocation failureerror.
Quick Tip:
You may adjust your browser to control how much of your PC’s resources are consumed while streaming, playing games, or downloading files.
Opera GX is one such browser that provides the GX Control Panel, which allows you to set limits on network bandwidth, RAM, and CPU use while navigating on it.
Opera GX
Not enough memory error in Power BI
1. Increase the memory available on the Machine
2. Enable Windows page file
3. Other solutions to try
This concludes our article covering the temporary memory allocation in PowerBI. Let us know if there is any other method you know of that we may have skipped, and we’ll update the article accordingly.
Tashreef Shareef
Tashreef Shareef is a software developer turned tech writer. He discovered his interest in technology after reading a tech magazine accidentally. Now he writes about everything tech from Windows to iOS and streaming services to IoT at WindowsReport.
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