Neil, Karen,
With Windows 7 and 8GB of ram on a 64 bit
system using Stata 11 MP to set mem 6GB.
Bob
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----- Original Message -----
From: Karen Wright <[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 4:31 am
Subject: Re: AW: AW: st: Increasing Stata Memory
To: [email protected]
> I have contacted Stata technical support asking how to overcome this
> issue of only being able to allocate 1G of memory. I have 140G
> available for use on my computer yet no more than 1G is accessible,
> doesn't make much sense to me! I shall post StataTech reply/solution
> to
> the list when i hear back from them.
>
> Karen
>
>
>
> >>> Jeph Herrin <[email protected]> 11/01/2010 18:47 >>>
> Well, it can't be good for Stata memory allocation, as
> XP has always been stingy about giving Stata more than 1gb...
>
>
>
> Martin Weiss wrote:
> > <>
> >
> > " There's something called "XP mode" in Win 7,
> > I haven't used it, but it can't be good...."
> >
> >
> > XP mode is pretty good, actually, at running legacy apps, and also
> exchanges
> > files with its host OS very fast and reliably. Stata 10 probably runs
> on
> > Windows 7 itself, though...
> >
> >
> >
> > HTH
> > Martin
> >
> >
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Jeph
> Herrin
> > Gesendet: Montag, 11. Januar 2010 16:48
> > An: [email protected]
> > Betreff: Re: AW: st: Increasing Stata Memory
> >
> > 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
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> >> Von: [email protected]
> >> [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Jeph
> Herrin
> >> Gesendet: Montag, 11. Januar 2010 15:01
> >> An: [email protected]
> >> 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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