When I try to launch a Stata job, I get an error
message:
op. sys. refused to start new process
r(702);
from a UNIX machine. My .do file request 1000m
memory. I make the request under the conditions
Memory: 8192M real, 4367M free, 224M swap free
So, there should be sufficient memory. Any ideas what
causes this or more importantly how to fix?
Insufficient memory will indeed give this error. Are you sure that your
Unix process limits allow you to grab that much memory (presumably more
than 1 Gb, if Stata allocates 1 Gb for just data)? Irregardless of how
much memory is on the machine, there are limits to the memory partition
that each user may request. "man ulimit" will tell you more on my Unix
system.
