st: RE: Slowing Stata down

["Sarah Edgington" <sedging@ucla.edu>]

Laura,
Are you running multiple instances of Stata simultaneously?  Or maybe doing
something else to access the file outside of the current instance of Stata?
This really shouldn't be happening unless multiple processes are trying to
access the file at once.  Do you have problems with file access in other
software?  Are you on a shared system where someone else could be accessing
the file?  This is very strange behavior and could be an indication of
either a problem with your hardware or your OS.  My recommendation would be
to figure out what the underlying problem is and fix it, rather than trying
to work around it in Stata.

I suppose, in theory, you might be able to add a -sleep- command by creating
your own versions of the mi.ado and mi_cmd_reshape.ado files.  That doesn't
strike me as a particularly good idea, though.  Plus, I quickly glanced over
the mi_cmd_reshape.ado file and didn't see any evidence of it calling for
accessing any files on disk. Have you used -set trace on- to figure out
exactly where the error is being generated?  If you decide to try to work
around the problem within Stata the first step is definitely going to be
figuring out exactly where the problem is happening.

Hope that helps.

-Sarah




-----Original Message-----
From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
[mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Laura Gibbons
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 11:57 AM
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: st: Slowing Stata down

My Dell PC computer has timing issues such that when Stata's accessing a
file on disc, Stata can occasionally go too fast, at least compared to my
computer, generating error messages about files being "read only".  In my
own code, if I have the program "sleep" for a few msec before accessing a
file, I can get around this.

But is there anything I can do to slow down internal Stata code?  I'm trying
to MI reshape a data set, and I get error messages during the "assembling
results" stage about files being "read only" which I know are indications of
the same problem.  [My computer at home, while generally running faster,
does not have this problem, either in my other code or within MI reshape.]

Many thanks,

Laura

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