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Re: st: RE: Memory usage in Stata 11 and 12
From
"William Gould, StataCorp LP" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: RE: Memory usage in Stata 11 and 12
Date
Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:45:16 -0500
Samuel Lucas <[email protected]> writes,
> Any chance -set memory- can be returned to stata 12.x? I do not
> understand a move that reduces user's control. If someone allocates
> more memory than they have, stata should just error out and inform
> them as in the past. That happening right at the start of a job is
> actually helpful.
What Samuel needs to do is -set min_memory-; see -help memory-.
min_memory specifies the minimum amount of memory Stata is to grab right
now and thereafter never release.
Samuel could obtain the equivalent of the old -set memory- command by
setting min_memory and max_memory to the same amount, but I don't see
why he would want to do that. If Samuel is wrong about his memory
requirements, he still has a chance of making it through is do-file
if he leaves max_memory set to "."
-- Bill
[email protected]
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