Re: st: Memory problem Large Dataset

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 11:10 AM 1/13/2006, Max Steinhardt wrote:
> I have problems with a large dataset using intercooled sata 8.2 under
> windows 2000. The size of the dataset is 1gb. My RAM is 520 MB and my
> virtual memory is set on 1.5 g.
> So it shoudn`t be a problem to load the data. But i can`t set memory
> bigger than 1g.the error message is :   op. sys. refuses to provide memory
> r(909)
>
> can somebody answer, why stata doesn`t use the virtual memory?
> Thanx,
> best regards Max
This might help:

http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/win/winmemory.html

I suspect you'd be happiest if you could find a way to trim your data 
set down so you didn't have to use virtual memory.


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