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If you've been playing about with analysis services as I have and tried the realtime updating or you've deployed a project and then made changes. You may find your machine starts thrashing, lots of IO (very noticeable on a laptop) Analysis Services service using CPU. Well I've just had the exact same situation.
... To read the complete version of this post go here, http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/simons/SSAS Thrashing your machine