st: Re: stata9 vs stata8 memory issues

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

This is a bug in XP SP2 that didn't affect Stata 8 but does affect Stata 9 
because Stata 9 switched to the MFC libraries.  It is a Stata faq:

http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/win/winmemory.html


Unfortunately, I have recently started using my Stata 9 and I tried to get 
the hot fix mentioned in the faq and MS told me that it was pulled.  So, as 
of now, I need to use Stata 8.2 for large datasets.  In fact, I find myself 
mostly using 8.2 because of this bug and I would to know if any other 
potential fixes are lurking out there.

Michael Blasnik
michael.blasnik@verizon.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "scott hankins" <scott.hankins@gmail.com>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 12:59 PM
Subject: st: stata9 vs stata8 memory issues



> Greetings,
>
> I have recently made the switch toStata9. Today I updated and tried to
> replicate some earlier work. Stata9 will only allocate 935m of memory
> but without rebooting Stata8.2 will allocate 1425m. Has anyone run
> into this issue, does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> I have 1.5 gigs of ram on a WinXP (service pack 2) machine.
>
> thanks
>
> Scott Hankins
>
> **********************Stata9***************************
> . set mem 950m
> op. sys. refuses to provide memory
> r(909);
>
> **********************Stata8***************************
> . set mem 1425m
>
> Current memory allocation
>
>                    current                                 memory usage
>    settable          value     description                 (1M = 1024k)
>    --------------------------------------------------------------------
>    set maxvar         5000     max. variables allowed           1.733M
>    set memory         1425M    max. data space              1,425.000M
>    set matsize         800     max. RHS vars in models          4.950M
>                                                            -----------
>                                                             1,431.682M
> r; t=0.11 12:55:15
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