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st: memory required for -merge-


From   Danielle H Ferry <[email protected]>
To   StataList <[email protected]>
Subject   st: memory required for -merge-
Date   Wed, 8 Mar 2006 22:39:45 -0500

Hi all,

Is there a rule for the amount of memory required for -merge-? I keep getting a "no room to add more variables due to width" error on the same merge. I am attempting to -merge- on only one variable (placefip), and 67% of memory is free before I attempt the -merge- (i.e., while the "master" dataset is loaded). The "using dataset is small, and I've got the memory set quite high (900m). So, I can't understand why I am running into memory problems.

This is the info on the "master" dataset:

. des

Contains data from ../data/geog/geog_pooled.dta
obs: 20,873,141
vars: 4 8 Mar 2006 21:32
size: 333,970,256 (66.5% of memory free) (_dta has notes)
------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------
storage display value
variable name type format label variable label
------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------
cityres long %05.0f * City of residence
msarfip int %04.0f * PMSA/MSA of residence (FIPS)
year int %4.0g
placefip long %07.0f * Place (city) of residence (FIPS)
* indicated variables have notes
------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------

And this is the info on the "using" dataset:

. des using ../data/geog/geog_cc

Contains data
obs: 25,150 8 Mar 2006 22:21
vars: 3
size: 1,207,200
------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------
storage display value
variable name type format label variable label
------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------
macci byte %1.0g Center city
placefip long %07.0f
place_name str39 %39s
------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------
Sorted by: placefip

This is the memory usage I see after the error, when the "master" dataset is loaded:

. memory
bytes
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Details of set memory usage
overhead (pointers) 83,492,564 8.38%
data 250,477,692 25.14%
----------------------------
data + overhead 333,970,256 33.53%
free 662,176,944 66.47%
----------------------------
Total allocated 996,147,200 100.00%
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Other memory usage
set maxvar usage 1,848,666
set matsize usage 1,315,200
programs, saved results, etc. 41,128
---------------
Total 3,204,994
-------------------------------------------------------
Grand total 999,352,194

Any ideas?

--
Danielle H Ferry


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