I went through a lot of rigmarole with MS to get this hotfix last
week. It seemed to make memory management issues with Stata worse on
my computer (e.g. less memory available through "set mem" and
noticeably slower run times). Hopefully, SP3 will be somewhat better.
Best,
Alan
On 7/14/05, Hua Peng <[email protected]> wrote:
> Michael Blasnik 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.
>
> Microsoft has informed us that hotfix 8944472 referenced in our FAQ
>
>
> http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/win/winmemory.html
>
>
> was pulled simply because it will become part of the Windows XP
> service pack 3 (SP3). Microsoft says that SP3 will be released
> in the next 6 months.
>
>
> Until SP3 is released, we have received permission from Microsoft to
> make hotfix 8944472 available to affected users. It is available via
> a link in the above FAQ.
>
> Please let us know if you encounter any problem.
>
> Hua.
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