In my current project, we are seeing weird database size expansion issue on essbase in production, the size of the cube is increasing by almost 1 GB/day and we are performing defragmentation every weekend. As a test, we ran one of the consolidation scripts ( A planning business rule) on the test application, there was no activity on this cube except for script run and we noticed that the pag file size was increasing with each number even though there was no difference in the number of level 0 blocks and upper level blocks. Is the page file size increase happening due to fragmentation? Is this normal behaviour? Any help is appreciated.