From: "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: st: RE: Re: Suggestions?
Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 23:23:13 +0100
Eswar Krishnan MD
> Thanks for the replies. Here is the situation:
>
> I have a dataset with about 5000 individuals, each with about 5
> observations. I need to run panel data estimators like
> XTREGAR, XTGLS and
> calculated bootstrapped CIs on smaller regression samples.
> The data set is
> about 100MB. As I mentioned earlier I had a Pentium 4 256
> MB computer (with
> virtual memory left to be determined by the system). A do file with
> univariate and multivariate analyses about 20 lines takes a
> good 20 -30
> minutes to run. Add to this the time needed to construct
> the .do file (even
> if is perform the debugging in a small subsample). Now
> after 1 run if I
> realize that I want to make a change, it takes a whole
> length of time. In
> addition, I am not able to do anything useful while STAT is running.
>
> I found from SUN representative that their Sunblade 150 can
> handle 5-6 gig
> RAM easily as it is a 64 bit system. However, it costs a
> lot ( at least 5000
> dollars with 2 gig RAM). So here am I........... Hope this
> information is
> helpful to others.
Hmmm. This is perhaps peripheral or irrelevant
to the main issue, but have you tried -compress-?
Nick
[email protected]
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