Of course!!! but as I am unfortunately not too brilliant with the techinical side of things I did not understand how much of the hard-drive memory available could/could not be allocated to RAM. I thought that technical support would be more informed as to how much of it is appliable. I'm afraid I took the easy way out of asking someone who did understand and could decipher, rather than learning about the insides of my computer!! Unfortunately i may have to take time to do this in the future though! I found the Stata reply very helpful and informative and thought that I should share it incase people like me (who do not understnad the intricacies of how computers memory works!) were wondering why they could not increase -set mem-.
>>> Neil Shephard <[email protected]> 12/01/2010 12:20 >>>
You didn't mention in your post that the 140Gb was hard-drive as
opposed to RAM, I would find it terribly painful to use 140Gb of HD
for pagefile/swap!!
You'd be waiting years for anything to complete!
Neil
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