Re: AW: st: Increasing Stata Memory

[Jeph Herrin <junk@spandrel.net>]

Just a possibility. 64bit Win 7 *should* give 32bit Stata
as much as 3.2gb, but XP was not good about this, perhaps
Win 7 also. There's something called "XP mode" in Win 7,
I haven't used it, but it can't be good....

J


Martin Weiss wrote:
> <> 
>
> With the result being that the old limitations of 32-bit bite, although
> 64-bit OSes can generally access more memory? 
>
> http://www.stata.com/products/64bitintro.html certainly stresses that
> "64-bit Stata requires both a 64-bit computing platform and a 64-bit
> operating system." Any missing link in this chain can probably spoil your
> fun!
>
>
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
>
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> Betreff: Re: st: Increasing Stata Memory
>
> Are you running 64bit Stata? If 32bit, Win 7 may be running
> it as an XP app.
>
>
> J Taylor wrote:
> > I just purchased a new laptop with 8 gb of memory, running on 64 bit
> > Windows 7.  I am trying to use a  just-under 3 gb dataset with Stata
> > 10.1/SE.  I try
> >
> > set mem 3g
> >
> > But stata says “op. sys. refuses to provide memory,” and it will only
> > let me go up to about 1400m.  Is it possible for me to use this data
> > on my laptop (besides having to find a way to make it smaller)?  Can I
> > increase the memory Stata uses?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > JT
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