A while back Alan Riley posted the following response to a question I posed
on the Stata list.
"A 64-bit version of Stata is indeed able to allocate more than 4GB of RAM.
In fact, in theory it would be able to allocate up to 4GB * 4GB of
RAM--that is, roughly 16 BILLION GB. In practice, of course, no computers
have that much RAM."
IBM now has an Opteron-based workstation running Linux that can be
configured with two processors and up to 16GB of RAM (8GB per
processor). Am I correct in assuming that Stata would be able to access
all 16 GB of RAM on such a system (less whatever the OS requires). In
other words would it be possible to have a memory value of say 17000M?
Would the answer be the same if the machine were running 64-bit Windows
(when a 64-bit Stata version for Windows becomes available)?
Tim
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