st: re: building a 'dream' stata desktop setup

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

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Fred said that he could not allocate nearly as much memory as I  
reported. Here is what my fully-updated Stata/MP4 version 10 on Mac  
OS X says:

. set mem 2270m

Current memory allocation
-------------------------

                    current                                 memory  
usage
    settable          value     description                 (1M =  
1024k)
     
--------------------------------------------------------------------
    set maxvar         5000     max. variables allowed           1.751M
    set memory         2270M    max. data space              2,270.000M
    set matsize         400     max. RHS vars in models          1.254M
                                                            -----------
                                                             2,273.006M

. memory
                                                  bytes
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Details of set memory usage
    overhead (pointers)                               0        0.00%
    data                                              0        0.00%
                                        ----------------------------
    data + overhead                                   0        0.00%
    free                                  2,380,267,520      100.00%
                                        ----------------------------
    Total allocated                       2,380,267,520      100.00%
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Other memory usage
    set maxvar usage                          1,836,513
    set matsize usage                         1,315,200
    programs, saved results, etc.                   131
                                        ---------------
    Total                                     3,151,844
-------------------------------------------------------
Grand total                               2,383,419,364


This system is running Mac OS X 10.5.4. Is yours, Fred?
I have 4 Gb of RAM on this system. I don't see why there would be  
such a large discrepancy between what you can allocate and what I can  
allocate.



Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html


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