Why is Microsoft Mashup Evaluation Container consuming so much RAM

Hi -
I am working with multiple large csv source files in power query. All of my queries are disabled by default during development and I load them to the data model when testing, and then unload them. My workbook is about 40KB in size.
But when I open the workbook and I click on "Enable Content" for External Data Connections (queries still disabled) I will see 4 or sometimes 6 Microsoft Mashup Evaluation Container tasks (Microsoft.Mashup.Container.NetFX40.exe) in the
Task Manager, each consuming 200-250MB.
Can you please tell me what these tasks are for? Why are they started with this workbook?
Thank you,
Rory

I'm having the same problem with a CSV source. I have a lot of Power Query steps, but each step is simple.
There are only a couple hundred rows in the CSV file, but I get three separate
Microsoft.Mashup.Container.NetFX40.exe files running that together take up 75% of my CPU as soon as I open the Excel file.
They never free up the CPU. I even let it run overnight, but they continue to use 75% the next morning.

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Nouveau:
Private + Shared = RAM used Program
76.0 KiB + 20.0 KiB = 96.0 KiB sleep
108.0 KiB + 27.0 KiB = 135.0 KiB agetty
120.0 KiB + 17.0 KiB = 137.0 KiB gpm
112.0 KiB + 26.5 KiB = 138.5 KiB gnome-pty-helper
180.0 KiB + 19.5 KiB = 199.5 KiB dhcpcd
176.0 KiB + 32.5 KiB = 208.5 KiB dbus-launch
224.0 KiB + 50.0 KiB = 274.0 KiB rtkit-daemon
288.0 KiB + 108.0 KiB = 396.0 KiB dnscrypt-proxy (2)
388.0 KiB + 42.5 KiB = 430.5 KiB hddtemp
416.0 KiB + 73.0 KiB = 489.0 KiB systemd-logind
504.0 KiB + 68.5 KiB = 572.5 KiB bluetoothd
384.0 KiB + 218.5 KiB = 602.5 KiB fancontrol
444.0 KiB + 185.5 KiB = 629.5 KiB gconf-helper
500.0 KiB + 132.5 KiB = 632.5 KiB gconfd-2
432.0 KiB + 224.0 KiB = 656.0 KiB login
448.0 KiB + 276.0 KiB = 724.0 KiB avahi-daemon (2)
656.0 KiB + 69.5 KiB = 725.5 KiB smartd
684.0 KiB + 42.5 KiB = 726.5 KiB hamachid
732.0 KiB + 110.5 KiB = 842.5 KiB ntpd
912.0 KiB + 51.5 KiB = 963.5 KiB systemd-udevd
616.0 KiB + 378.5 KiB = 994.5 KiB cups-browsed
932.0 KiB + 149.5 KiB = 1.1 MiB xscreensaver
676.0 KiB + 409.5 KiB = 1.1 MiB dbus-daemon (2)
968.0 KiB + 238.5 KiB = 1.2 MiB obex-data-server
804.0 KiB + 628.0 KiB = 1.4 MiB bash (2)
1.0 MiB + 379.0 KiB = 1.4 MiB cupsd
1.2 MiB + 494.5 KiB = 1.7 MiB devilspie
1.7 MiB + 90.5 KiB = 1.8 MiB systemd
1.3 MiB + 806.5 KiB = 2.1 MiB tint2
1.9 MiB + 628.0 KiB = 2.5 MiB slim
7.0 MiB + -3819.5 KiB = 3.2 MiB polkitd
2.6 MiB + 729.0 KiB = 3.3 MiB openbox
2.2 MiB + 1.3 MiB = 3.5 MiB avant-window-navigator
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180.0 KiB + 19.5 KiB = 199.5 KiB dhcpcd
176.0 KiB + 34.5 KiB = 210.5 KiB dbus-launch
224.0 KiB + 53.0 KiB = 277.0 KiB rtkit-daemon
284.0 KiB + 109.0 KiB = 393.0 KiB dnscrypt-proxy (2)
392.0 KiB + 44.5 KiB = 436.5 KiB hddtemp
424.0 KiB + 76.0 KiB = 500.0 KiB systemd-logind
440.0 KiB + 73.5 KiB = 513.5 KiB bluetoothd
496.0 KiB + 144.5 KiB = 640.5 KiB gconfd-2
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448.0 KiB + 213.5 KiB = 661.5 KiB gconf-helper
680.0 KiB + 46.5 KiB = 726.5 KiB hamachid
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129.0 MiB
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wrycatcher wrote:I don't have anything that usual installed, I don't think. If I go from a fresh boot up, my experience is that I end up using about 400MB out of the 768 MB total physical memory (eventually my system will slow to a crawl with about 95% of RAM used).
If it never exceeds 95% , I don't see why there should be any slow downs.
Does it swap ? Thats much more important to check than the memory usage (even if its obviously linked).
If a lot of swap is used, then it's very bad indeed, and you're left with the two obvious choices :
1) get more memory
2) use less memory hungry apps
Recently, I set up Ubuntu (which is more bloated than Arch, with a ton of unneeded crap by default) on a box with 256 MB.
Just booting into an empty gnome session filled up all ram. Then trying to start OpenOffice made the system swap badly,
and it was very slow.
I upgraded it to 512 mb, and everything is fine now.
So I find it strange that 768 mb can't handle arch + xfce.

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Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate
All of which I can burn to a DVD myself, giving me a bootable media as you say "for installing directly onto a target device"
I then just request the requisite key from Microsoft using my Live ID, allowing a trial/evaluation of the product.
Why does Microsoft not provide a similar evaluation scheme for POSReady 2009?
There must be a reason or key difference with POSReady 2009 compared to the other MS products listed above - I just don't understand what the reason is...
Yes, I'm aware I can order the eval "kit" online - as I said above it will cost me quite a bit to get the piece of plastic shipped to the other side of the planet.
An ISO image download saves what is really a pointless (arcane) postage of a piece of plastic surely?
I don't have any specific questions at this stage no. I possibly will have specific questions after I've had a hands-on play with it...
Cheers,
theUtmost

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NISE 1.0 has a dll version of 1.0.1.109
NISE 1.0.1 has a dll version of 1.1.4.1
NISE 1.0.2 has a dll version of 1.2.4.7
NISE 2.0 has a dll version of 2.0.0.45154
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Hi,
Thanks! I forgot to add, I have debonded and rebonded the bluetooth in car and phone and have carried out 3 restores on the phone in my ITunes. All to no avail. I have also jsut spent £40 on a lead from Ford that has made no difference too! I went to them today to request a software upgrade on my car as I though perhaps the lack of connectivity in the car was down to the car being behind the iOS5 software but was informed there was no need for an upgrade and this problem is purely an apple problem! Is there any way around the downgrade? Or are apple gong to resolve this problem at all??

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... failing that you shold get it at:
https://www.microsoft.com/mac/remote-desktop-client
Regards,
Shawn

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Why does Microsoft refuse to support CSS development?
Is there an email client available that supports full CSS and HTML rendering? I know about Entourage, but that is for Mac and we use PC at work. I am really interested in email newsletters and developing that form of communication, i.e. embedding graphics etc in the body of emails.
I do it now as part of my role - creating the newsletter in Dreamweaver, viewing it in the browser and sending by email. However, I still have to use CSS tables for layout and things like image map hotspots don't work, so I always add a link to the web version of images I create for the emails. I know I can get round it to a certain extent with more rows etc in my tables, but I wish I could just design graphics and images elsewhere, e.g. Illustrator, Photoshop and Fireworks and simply add them to Dreamweaver as I would normally with webpage creation.
I know about Mailchimp and that is not what I want. I want to be able to create everything myself as I do now, but without the CSS restrictions.

I disagree ...
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...and take offence at your snooty response.
I don't know what you're smoking my friend, but my reply wasn't snooty or offensive. My tone is best described as abrupt, the result of dashing off hurried replies between other work-related tasks.
You madam need to get your head around good email communication to grab people's attention...
Now who is being condescending and pompous?   Are you telling me that good email needs visual interest? It's a nice idea. But OMG, 75% of e-mail users with anti-virus software have their images turned-off for security reasons and the remaining web mail users don't see images unless they go through hurdles. So what's the point?
In summary, good communication is recognizing the medium for what it is, exploiting it's advantages and diminishing its disadvantages.    You sell the steak; not the sizzle.
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
http://alt-web.com/
http://twitter.com/altweb

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Why is Microsoft word hogging my computer screen?
Right now my laptop is open and the following programs are open:
Finder
Mail
Safari
Calendar
Contacts
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Maps
Filemaker Pro
Preview
If I am in mail and want to select one of the open messages on the screen, my screen jumps to the open Word documents on the screen and to the Word application.
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Steve

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Everything (including the web) is going to look like crap on the MBP-R's for quite some time, thus is the cost of being on the cutting edge.
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Thank you for the details of the issue you are experiencing with the battery life on your iPhone 5.
The link below has suggestions to adjust a few settings:
Battery & power
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Find more information here:
iPhone Repair - Battery & Power
http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/repair/battery-power/
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
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☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Activity Monitor in the icon grid.
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Hello all!
I want to discuss the UX we have using jnlp launch in JavaFX.
You can find jira-discussion here:
http://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-14930
As you can see, it was recognized as major bug.
What's wrong with jnlp-start?
1. When user launch jnlp-file, red confusing window "Java 7..." appears immediately.
While it can be slightly useful in promotion purposes, but many of today's users will be disturbed. There is no association "Java means cool" today. Users wanted to launch new sexy app, but all they see is strange poster with "Java........."
Imagine pop-up window with "Adobe Flash XX.XXX" for several seconds every time when you try to launch flash game. Is it fine UX you await?
2. I don't know, is it independent issue, or tightly coupled with previous one, but jnlp-start really consumes large amount of time.
On my machine with SSD most JavaFX apps can be launched from jar in less than 1 second.
But launching same app via jnlp take about 4-5 seconds total.
I suppose, it is self-evidently that launch of app with .jar files on disk must consume not much time than direct jar-launch.

Hello,
1) Should there even be a jnlp-start pop-up? Maybe a setting with no web-start pop-up or maybe the developer can provide own image to pop-up?
2) It does seem a little slow. I see that in the jnlp file there are references to external URL's.... could it be that these URL's are being accessed every time the JNLP is launched causing this delay? Is the performance of the jnlp startup tied to the performance of the external site and its network?
thanks
jose

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