st: stcox, shared() takes hours?

[Jeph Herrin <junk@spandrel.net>]

I am estimating (Stata/SE 9.2)

. stcox var1 var2, shared(id)

for 70k observations on about 1000 -id-s. It has been
"Estimating frailty variance:" for approximately 14hrs
now. Is that typical? Is there a way to speed this up?
A problem to look for?

Hardware is the latest & greatest.

thanks,
Jeph

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