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st: Re: memory required for -merge-


From   "Michael Blasnik" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: Re: memory required for -merge-
Date   Thu, 09 Mar 2006 08:40:33 -0500

You've gotten several replies that dance around the simple answer -- you are trying to add a str39 variable to a dataset with more than 20 million observations. That will require about 39*20m= 780MB of additional memory and you've only got about 666MB free.

Michael Blasnik
[email protected]

----- Original Message ----- From: "Danielle H Ferry" <[email protected]>
To: "StataList" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 10:39 PM
Subject: st: memory required for -merge-



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)
<snip>
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
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