st: RE: Overid error

["Schaffer, Mark E" <M.E.Schaffer@hw.ac.uk>]

John,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu 
> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of 
> John Antonakis
> Sent: 22 November 2009 18:28
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: st: Overid error
> 
> Hi:
> 
> I get the following error after running overid:
> 
>  overid
>                        #:  3900  unable to allocate real 
> <tmp>[20000,20000]
>             overidreg3():     -  function returned error
>                  <istmt>:     -  function returned error
> 
> Any ideas what might be causing this?

Is your copy of Stata fully up-to-date?  I've seen errors in the past
like this that are caused by ados not being synched with the exe and
things like that.

If that doesn't fix it, then it's over to Kit - the reg3 code is his
baby.

Cheers,
Mark

> I am running Windows 7 and it seems like I have enough memory:
> 
> Current memory allocation
> 
>                     current                                 
> memory usage
>     settable          value     description                 
> (1M = 1024k)
>     
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>     set maxvar         5000     max. variables allowed        
>    1.909M
>     set memory         1024M    max. data space              
> 1,024.000M
>     set matsize        1000     max. RHS vars in models       
>    7.713M
>                                                             
> -----------
>                                                              
> 1,033.622M (set memory preference recorded)
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> John.
> 
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