st: diagnose stata memory usage

[Andrea Monti <ilsuonogiallo@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

I am trying to understand how Stata uses memory to correct some "op
sys refuses to give memory" errors.

I am using Stata/SE 11.0 on Windows XP SP3 32 bit and sometimes my
do-files end with "op sys refuses to give memory" even on very small
dataset.

I am subject to the 2-GB limit and I am using small dataset, so I
suppose that using "set memory some_high_value" will not be useful: it
should allocate unneeded tons of memory for a small dataset, leaving a
very small ( 2 GB - some_high_value ) working space for alla stata
calculations.

I do not understand why Stata is using so much memory. Is there a way
to diagnose what stata is using memory for ?

thanks,

andrea
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