st: re: Memory, Stata 10, and 32-bit XP

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

Forgetting about 32-bit XP, Vista and all that stuff, under Mac OS X  
10.4.x I get

Stata/SE 9.2 on a machine with 1 Gb RAM: maximum of 1970 Mb available  
(with matsize=400)

Stata/SE 10.0 on a machine with 6 Gb RAM: maximum of 2260 Mb  
available (with matsize=400)

These are 64-bit machines running a 32-bit version of Mac OS X. When  
I install Mac OS X 10.5, I will have a 64-bit OS, and when StataCorp  
releases a 64-bit version of Stata 10 to match, I will be in memory  
hog heaven.

I expect you could get access to quite a bit more RAM on your Intel  
box under any flavor of Linux than WinXP, and perhaps more than  
Michael Blasnik reports under Vista...

Kit

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html

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