st: Re: ram memory: microsoft fix does not work

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

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I have a few ideas which may (or may not) be helpful:

In my experience,  1.2GB-1.4GB is about all of the RAM you can expect to 
allocate to Stata when running 32-bit windows.  If you need more memory 
allocated, you will probably need a new computer running a different OS. 
I'm not sure how much memory you can allocate to Stata with 32bit computers 
using Linux or Mac OS -- you may have to go to 64 bit.

You can try two things to try to get by with your current hardware -- making 
more memory available in Windows and reducing how much memory your dataset 
needs.  You may be able to free up some memory by running as few processes 
as possible in Windows -- disabling all of the auto-start processes you can 
(check out running msconfig from Start->Run) and not launching any other 
software in the session.  You should then look at your dataset and only keep 
the variables that you need for the estimation.  Try to get rid of any long 
string variables and make sure that each variable that you do need is 
compressed as much as possible.

Good luck,

Michael Blasnik

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dr. Roberto Mura" <roberto.mura@mbs.ac.uk>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 6:46 PM
Subject: st: ram memory: microsoft fix does not work



> Dear all,
> the issue that I am experiencing is that, despite the 3,070 Mega of
> Ram memory installed in my PC, the op.sys refuses to give me more
> than 1.1Giga (set memory 1195m is the max it allows me).
> This is a huge issue as I cannot run the xtabond2 estimations I need
> to, since the system runs out of memory:
>   xtabond2_mata():  3900  unable to allocate real <tmp>[35360,1049]
>                   <istmt>:     -  function returned error
>
> I have already checked the proposed solution in the web, namely:
> www.stata.com/support/faqs/win/winmemory.html
> and I already downloaded and installed the proposed Microsoft fix:
> www.stata.com/support/faqs/win/WindowsXP-KB894472-x86-ENU.exe
> This did not produce any effect. I tried with Stata Technical Support
> but they were unable to solve this issue.
> I also tried to contact Microsoft directly but with little luck.
> Please note that I am running Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2
> (build 2600)  on a Compaq Presario SR1639UK with an AMD Athlon 64
> Processor 3700. I am using Stata/SE 9.2 for Windows, Born 06 Oct 2006.
> Please let me know if there is any more detail I can provide.
> Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.
> R
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