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" No operating system allows
programs to use more than 50 percent of RAM. Since 32-bit systems only can
use a maximum of 4 GB RAM, it follows that a 32-bit system cannot allocate
more than 2 GB of RAM. 64-bit systems can use, from what I have heard, an
unlimited amount of RAM but they will still not allocate more than maximum
50 percent of RAM to other programs."
I am not sure this is true. I have 8G of RAM on 64bit Vista, and _can_
allocate 6G w/o problems....
HTH
Martin
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Joachim
Landström
Gesendet: Dienstag, 12. Januar 2010 14:09
An: [email protected]
Betreff: RE: AW: AW: st: Increasing Stata Memory
Neil,
>From what I have read on the subject, my understanding is as follows.
Both 32-bit and 64-bit systems run under the same sort of memory limitation
independently of operating system (Linux/Win). No operating system allows
programs to use more than 50 percent of RAM. Since 32-bit systems only can
use a maximum of 4 GB RAM, it follows that a 32-bit system cannot allocate
more than 2 GB of RAM. 64-bit systems can use, from what I have heard, an
unlimited amount of RAM but they will still not allocate more than maximum
50 percent of RAM to other programs.
Thus, in your case, your system will not allocate more than maximum 2GB RAM
to programs despite your 64-bit system. But if you increase the amount of
physical RAM to 8GB you should be able to allocate up to 4 GB of RAM to
programs and consequently set the Stata memory to much higher than 1.3 GB.
/Joachim
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Neil Shephard
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 11:19 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: AW: AW: st: Increasing Stata Memory
I noticed the other day that on my GNU/Linux system with 4Gb of RAM
and support enabled in the kernel for such an amount of RAM that under
my 64-bit installation I'm unable to allocate more than 1.3Gb...
. about
Stata/IC 11.0 for Unix (Linux 64-bit x86-64)
Born 21 Oct 2009
Copyright (C) 1985-2009
<--- snip --->
. forval x = 1000(10)2000{
2. di "Trying to set memory to `x' Mb"
3. set mem `x'M
4. }
Trying to set memory to 1000 Mb
(1024000k)
Trying to set memory to 1010 Mb
(1034240k)
Trying to set memory to 1020 Mb
(1044480k)
Trying to set memory to 1030 Mb
(1054720k)
Trying to set memory to 1040 Mb
(1064960k)
Trying to set memory to 1050 Mb
(1075200k)
Trying to set memory to 1060 Mb
(1085440k)
Trying to set memory to 1070 Mb
(1095680k)
Trying to set memory to 1080 Mb
(1105920k)
Trying to set memory to 1090 Mb
(1116160k)
Trying to set memory to 1100 Mb
(1126400k)
Trying to set memory to 1110 Mb
(1136640k)
Trying to set memory to 1120 Mb
(1146880k)
Trying to set memory to 1130 Mb
(1157120k)
Trying to set memory to 1140 Mb
(1167360k)
Trying to set memory to 1150 Mb
(1177600k)
Trying to set memory to 1160 Mb
(1187840k)
Trying to set memory to 1170 Mb
(1198080k)
Trying to set memory to 1180 Mb
(1208320k)
Trying to set memory to 1190 Mb
(1218560k)
Trying to set memory to 1200 Mb
(1228800k)
Trying to set memory to 1210 Mb
(1239040k)
Trying to set memory to 1220 Mb
(1249280k)
Trying to set memory to 1230 Mb
(1259520k)
Trying to set memory to 1240 Mb
(1269760k)
Trying to set memory to 1250 Mb
(1280000k)
Trying to set memory to 1260 Mb
(1290240k)
Trying to set memory to 1270 Mb
(1300480k)
Trying to set memory to 1280 Mb
op. sys. refuses to provide memory
r(909);
!uname -a
Linux morgan 2.6.31-tuxonice #6 SMP Wed Dec 9 13:26:25 GMT 2009 x86_64
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8500 @ 3.16GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
...which surprised me as its 64-bit OS and Stata (static install as I
had issues with some of the GUI libraries).
Neil
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