Re: st: Stata and memory use under linux (Off topic)

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@nd.edu>]

At 12:04 PM 1/8/2005 -0600, Alan Riley wrote:

> Once you have given Stata enough memory, giving it even more than that
> can be counterproductive.  The more memory you allocate to Stata, the
> more risk you incur of causing the operating system to start swapping
> that memory to the hard disk, which will greatly slow down Stata.
Perhaps Stata could issue a warning to that effect when you try to allocate 
more memory than you have RAM?

For that matter, how hard it would be for Stata to dynamically allocate 
whatever it is that it needs?

Just off the top of my head, Stata is the only program I can think of where 
I need to allocate the memory myself.  But perhaps there are advantages to 
doing it yourself.


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