azure data factory 2 - DIU does not increase not more than 4 on copy activity

Question

I am trying to copy data from GCP(Big Query) Azure Storage Gen2 parquet file with below configuration. Increased DIU from 4 to 16 but during runtime the DIU does not go beyond 4. Can you please help on how to increase the DIU to make my process faster?

1. using preserve hierarchy
2. Data size 12 millions with 3gb
3. Throughput is 2.5mbps

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65871435/diu-does-not-increase-not-more-than-4-on-copy-activity

Answer 1

To increase DIU for a copy activity just click on the activity, and under the Settings tab you can find the Data Integration Unit selector.