Kit,
Thanks for your reply. According to ulimit, I can
get unlimited system resources.
Thanks,
Jyan
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>
> Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 18:04:01 -0500
> From: Christopher F Baum <[email protected]>
> Subject: st: Re: op. sys. refuses to start new
> process
>
> On Feb 21, 2004, at 2:33 AM, A. Pal wrote:
>
> > When I try to launch a Stata job, I get an error
> > message:
> >
> > op. sys. refused to start new process
> > r(702);
> >
> >
> > from a UNIX machine. My .do file request 1000m
> > memory. I make the request under the conditions
> >
> > Memory: 8192M real, 4367M free, 224M swap free
> >
> > So, there should be sufficient memory. Any ideas
> what
> > causes this or more importantly how to fix?
>
> Insufficient memory will indeed give this error. Are
> you sure that your
> Unix process limits allow you to grab that much
> memory (presumably more
> than 1 Gb, if Stata allocates 1 Gb for just data)?
> Irregardless of how
> much memory is on the machine, there are limits to
> the memory partition
> that each user may request. "man ulimit" will tell
> you more on my Unix
> system.
>
> Kit
>
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