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Re: st: RE: Memory usage in Stata 11 and 12


From   "William Gould, StataCorp LP" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: RE: Memory usage in Stata 11 and 12
Date   Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:45:16 -0500

Samuel Lucas <[email protected]> writes, 

> Any chance -set memory- can be returned to stata 12.x?  I do not
> understand a move that reduces user's control.  If someone allocates
> more memory than they have, stata should just error out and inform
> them as in the past.  That happening right at the start of a job is
> actually helpful.

What Samuel needs to do is -set min_memory-; see -help memory-.

min_memory specifies the minimum amount of memory Stata is to grab right 
now and thereafter never release.

Samuel could obtain the equivalent of the old -set memory- command by 
setting min_memory and max_memory to the same amount, but I don't see 
why he would want to do that.  If Samuel is wrong about his memory 
requirements, he still has a chance of making it through is do-file 
if he leaves max_memory set to "." 

-- Bill
[email protected]
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