Re: st: Re: memory

["Hans J. Baumgartner" <hbaumgartner@diw.de>]

Hi Chirs,

thanks for your answer.

I’m running Stata/SE on Unix. If I am interpret your email correctly, 
you are running Stata on some Unix, too, and it does work out with 8 GB 
of Ram. Is that correct?

Cheers
Hans


Chris Chung schrieb:


> Dear Hans,
>
> I had a similar problem. My problem was related to the size of dataset 
> and time-consuming computing procedure (i.e. multiple failure-time 
> analysis). Although I used a quad xeon 2.2 processor with 8 GB of RAM 
> and 500 GB of drive space, I had to wait several days to get the result 
> of multiple failure-time analysis. I was really surprised by the slow 
> computing speed as I have yet to run more complicated models with more 
> variables. However, the 2 GB limit that we are experiencing is a 
> Stata/Terminal Services limitation (or feature). Any single application 
> running through Stata/Terminal Services can only allocate up to 2 GB of 
> memory.  In this case, with a 32 bit application it doesn't really 
> matter - the current 32 bit Stata for Windows can only allocate a 
> theoretical 2 GB of memory anyway. When MS officially releases a 64 bit 
> version of Windows, we will have a 64 bit compile of Stata for Windows 
> which will be able to overcome the 2 GB limit. But the time has not come 
> yet.
>
> Chris
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hans J. Baumgartner" 
> <hbaumgartner@diw.de>
> To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 4:21 AM
> Subject: st: memory
>
>
>
> > Dear statalist,
> >
> > I’ve got new data that requires a lot of memory, i.e. >4 GB.
> >
> > My system administrator told me that Stata would not be able to handle 
> > more than 2 GB physical memory and that each extra memory has to be 
> > virtual.
> >
> > Has anybody some experience to share with "memory eating data"?
> >
> > My aim is to get 4 or even 8 GB of physical memory but if my system 
> > operator is right, than we can save that money.
> >
> > Thanks for all comments on this.
> > Hans
> >
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> > German Institute for Economic Research
> > Dept. Public Economics
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Dept. Public Economics
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