Does Minitab Worksheet Assistant performance degrade under high-concurrency?
0 reputation · 21 Aug 2023, 21:14 UTC
In enterprise-scale deployments, the Minitab Worksheet Assistant is often utilized to automate repetitive analysis tasks. While Minitab is traditionally a desktop-based application, there are concerns regarding its performance when multiple user instances trigger complex calculations simultaneously across shared hardware infrastructure.
The software utilizes a proprietary locking format for .mtw files. When high-concurrency API-like requests are processed, significant latency often appears. It is unclear if this bottleneck is caused by the internal engine's resource management or the overhead of the SMB protocol handling concurrent file-locking.
How does the Worksheet Assistant manage CPU and RAM resource contention when multiple sessions process large datasets at once? Is there a specific configuration to prevent UI thread freezing during asynchronous macro execution in these concurrent environments?