This sounds like something you should talk 
through with Stata tech-support, but they'd need 
precise details on your set-up. Perhaps 
you are asking for so much memory that Stata 
is using virtual memory and so becoming inordinately 
slow. 
Nick 
[email protected] 
> I mean that the programm doesn't respond. At times it is just a bit
> slow, but other times  it doesn't allow one to click any of the Stata
> commands, so that the only thing to do is to close Stata and restart
> again. 
> This is very difficult for anyone to comment on without 
> any detail. For example, when you say that
> Stata collapses, what do you mean, precisely? 
> > I am working with a large micro data which contains approx.
> > 110,000 obs.
> > I am having lots of problems when trying to work with my 
> data as Stata
> > collapses very frequently. I have set my memory up to 1g and I have
> > compressed all my variables, but the problems persist. I would
> > appreciate any suggestions in this respect. 
 
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