Stata Max Memory*

[Muhammad Ramzan]

Hello


I have to work on large state data files.

This is my Laptop specification

64 GB RAM

SSD

core I7


How I can set the max memory so that the Stata do the things quickly please


Thanks

[Hemanshu Kumar]

Stata manages memory automatically. See

help memory

If you run into errors saying no room to add more variables, you may need to set maxvar appropriately. But otherwise for speed upgrades you may need Stata/MP versions that utilise more numbers of processor cores, and/or see if there is a way to improve your code for greater parallelization. See, for instance:

ssc desc parallel

[Muhammad Ramzan]

Hemanshu Kumar

Thanks a lot for nice suggestion

[Eric Makela]

Hemanshu is correct here, if you're already running Stata/MP, there are limited options for increasing computation speed on a non-server machine. Thanks though Hemanshu Kumar for the pointer to parallel!