Re: st: Re: memory

["Chris Chung" <cchungc403@rogers.com>]

I'm running Stata in Windows 2003 Enterprise Server with terminal services 
and it does not work out with 8GB of RAM.

Above, Neil Shephard wrote:
The GNU/Linux OS takes advantage of 64-bit processors,
and Stata is already available for this platfrom.

Chris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hans J. Baumgartner" <hbaumgartner@diw.de>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 5:46 AM
Subject: Re: st: Re: memory



> 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
> > >
> > > --
> > > Hans J. Baumgartner DIW Berlin
> > > German Institute for Economic Research
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> Königin-Luise-Str. 5; 14195 Berlin; Germany
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