Thanks for the info, hopefully this can get fixed in the near future.
scott
On 7/8/05, Michael Blasnik <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is a bug in XP SP2 that didn't affect Stata 8 but does affect Stata 9
> because Stata 9 switched to the MFC libraries. It is a Stata faq:
>
> http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/win/winmemory.html
>
>
> Unfortunately, I have recently started using my Stata 9 and I tried to get
> the hot fix mentioned in the faq and MS told me that it was pulled. So, as
> of now, I need to use Stata 8.2 for large datasets. In fact, I find myself
> mostly using 8.2 because of this bug and I would to know if any other
> potential fixes are lurking out there.
>
> Michael Blasnik
> [email protected]
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "scott hankins" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 12:59 PM
> Subject: st: stata9 vs stata8 memory issues
>
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I have recently made the switch toStata9. Today I updated and tried to
> > replicate some earlier work. Stata9 will only allocate 935m of memory
> > but without rebooting Stata8.2 will allocate 1425m. Has anyone run
> > into this issue, does anyone have any suggestions?
> >
> > I have 1.5 gigs of ram on a WinXP (service pack 2) machine.
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > Scott Hankins
> >
> > **********************Stata9***************************
> > . set mem 950m
> > op. sys. refuses to provide memory
> > r(909);
> >
> > **********************Stata8***************************
> > . set mem 1425m
> >
> > Current memory allocation
> >
> > current memory usage
> > settable value description (1M = 1024k)
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > set maxvar 5000 max. variables allowed 1.733M
> > set memory 1425M max. data space 1,425.000M
> > set matsize 800 max. RHS vars in models 4.950M
> > -----------
> > 1,431.682M
> > r; t=0.11 12:55:15
> >
>
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