Sorry for wasting your time with the query. I just answered
my own question:
Although the RAM is 1 gig on the machine I am using, the
"data area" indicated by "data seg size" in the output of
"ulimit -a" below was limited to 130000. I increased the
data area to 300MB with "ulimit -d 300000" and now I can
allocate up to c. 300MB in Stata with the "set mem" command
or from the command line.
yolen:~$ ulimit -a
core file size (blocks) 0
data seg size (kbytes) 300000
file size (blocks) unlimited
max memory size (kbytes) 1019208
open files 4096
pipe size (512 bytes) 8
stack size (kbytes) 2048
cpu time (seconds) unlimited
max user processes 64
virtual memory (kbytes) 1048576
I hope that the news helps someone besides me. Sorry again
for wasting your time.
Best,
Michael Ash, Assistant Professor
of Economics and Public Policy
Department of Economics and CPPA
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
Tel 413-545-6329 Fax 413-545-2921
Email [email protected]
http://people.umass.edu/maash
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