The memory in question would be RAM, not disk. Check how much RAM is free when you launch Statistics. Perhaps some other applications are consuming it. Have you rebooted lately?
You didn't say what platform you are on, but on Windows, you can see this in the Task Manager. On my system right now, memory usage is 46% of my 16GB. Statistics is using only a tiny fraction of that.
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