st: Re: Windows XP, Stata, and memory

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

I would try starting Stata right after booting the machine and avoid running 
other programs.  If you have many automatically loading programs, try 
turning some of that off.  The problem is that Stata needs a contiguous 
block of memory, not just 1200m (which windows could provide easily).  There 
may be some memory mangement utilities that can help drop unneded stuff out 
of memory and/or reorganize memory (?).  Just now I allocating mem on my 
similarly configured machine (XP SP2, 2G) and Stata was able to allocate 
1400m.  Usually I can get about 1000m - 1300m.  If I've been using the 
machine all day, then the limit is sometimes as little as 850m.

Michael Blasnik
michael.blasnik@verizon.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pierre Azoulay" <pierre.azoulay@gmail.com>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 7:53 AM
Subject: st: Windows XP, Stata, and memory



> Hello,
>
> I am trying to estimate a linear fixed effects model using dummy
> variables and not xtreg (don't ask why...I just need to :-)). With
> 4000 units in the panel, I need lots of memory.
>
> My computer is running Windows XP SP2 with two gigabytes of RAM, along
> with Stata 9.
> The problem is that I cannot seem to be able to assign more memory to
> stata than about 800 MB. For example:
>
> . set mem 1200m
> op. sys. refuses to provide memory
> r(909);
>
> Is there any way around this problem? I thought windows XP needed
> 500MB to work comfortably. So in theory, set mem 1200m should not  be
> a problem. Any suggestions? (please, don't tell me "use linux").
>
> Regards,
>
> Pierre
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