processes running after Stata has initialized and and as some of them go
offline you can use their memory allocations for Stata. This is really
a Wondows rather then Stata issue, See article about memory managment
here:
http://blogs.technet.com/askperf/archive/2007/03/23/memory-management-demystifying-3gb.aspx.
You can improve memory allocation by overriding Wondows defaults.
>
>
> 2009/7/20 BENJAMIN SCHWAB <[email protected]>
>
>> I'm encountering an issue with setting memory that I have not seen
>> covered
>> by the large database FAQ or in the Statalist archives.
>> When I open Stata and try the 'set mem xxxm' to a large memory allocation
>> (it seems as if it's anything over 500m), I sometimes get the r(909)
>> error
>> saying “op. sys. refuses to provide memory”. The strange part, however,
>> is
>> if I set the memory to a much smaller number, e.g. set mem 250m, and then
>> gradually raise the memory allocation, I can get up to and past the
>> original
>> allocation that was originally refused.
>> For example, today I did the following:
>>
>> set mem 800m
>> op. sys. refuses to provide memory
>> r(909)
>>
>> set mem 250m
>>
>> set mem 500m
>>
>> set mem 800m
>> op. sys. refuses to provide memory
>> r(909)
>>
>> set mem 700m
>>
>> set mem 800m
>>
>> set mem 850m
>>
>> I can't figure out why this occurs. This can be a real pain for
>> programming purposes, since it's difficult to predict what exact memory
>> allocations will be accepted from day to day (I'm working with large
>> datasets).
>>
>> I'm running Stata/SE 10.1 with XP SP3. I'd love to hear the input of
>> those
>> more familiar with the working of Stata. Right now, I'm stumped.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
>> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
>>
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