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If I have 4 gb installed on StataMP 11 on OS X 10.5.8, yet
-set memory 5g-
doesn't cause an error message. Neither does -set memory 50g-.
The manuals says it should but look at this (I don't have 50 gb of
memory):
. set memory 50g
Current memory allocation
current memory
usage
settable value description (1M =
1024k)
--------------------------------------------------------------------
set maxvar 5000 max. variables allowed 2.105M
set memory 51200M max. data space 51,200.000M
set matsize 400 max. RHS vars in models 1.254M
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51,203.359M
. memory
bytes
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Details of set memory usage
overhead (pointers) 0 0.00%
data 0 0.00%
----------------------------
data + overhead 0 0.00%
free 53,687,091,200 100.00%
----------------------------
Total allocated 53,687,091,200 100.00%
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Other memory usage
set maxvar usage 2,206,954
set matsize usage 1,315,200
programs, saved results, etc. 1,994
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Total 3,524,148
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Grand total 53,690,615,348
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