STATA/MP 17 - Crashes when I set processors greater than 1.

[Jason Tologist]

I am running STATA 17/MP on a Windows 11 Pro operating system with an AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core Processor and 16.0 GB of RAM. When I set processors = 1, my syntax runs perfectly. However, if I set processors to anything above one, STATA crashes after a few seconds. I would appreciate any help on this matter.

Below is additional information about my system and STATA:

System Info:

OS Name	Microsoft Windows 11 Pro
Processor	AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core Processor, 3701 Mhz, 12 Core(s), 24 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date	American Megatrends Inc. 4005, 2021-07-13
Installed Physical Memory (RAM)	16.0 GB

STATA Info:

maxvar	5000 (2048-120000; max. vars allowed)
niceness	5 (0-10)
min_memory	0 (0-1600g)
max_memory	. (32m-1600g or .)
segmentsize	32m (1m-32g)
adosize	1000 (kilobytes)
max_preservemem	1g (0-1600g)

STATA System and Memory Limits:

stata_version	17
version	17 (version)
userversion	17 (version)
dyndoc_version	2 (dyndoc)
born_date	"14 Jun 2021"
edition	"BE"
edition_real	"MP"
bit	64
SE	1
MP	1
processors	1 (Stata/MP, set processors)
processors_lic	64
processors_mach	24
processors_max	24
mode	""
console	""

memory	33554432
maxvar	5000 (set maxvar)
niceness	5 (set min_memory)
min_memory	0 (set min_memory)
max_memory	. (set max_memory)
segmentsize	33554432 (set segmentsize)
adosize	1000 (set adosize)
max_preservemem	1073741824 (set max_preservemem)

[Leonardo Guizzetti]

You may wish to contact Stata Technical Support for this.

[Richard Williams]

Is your version of Stata up to date? I’m not sure what command you ran to get the info you presented, but based on the born date it seems you may be way behind on your updates. Use the

update query

command and go from there.

[Leonardo Guizzetti]

Richard has a very good suggestion to update your version of Stata.

These details are part of the output of -creturn list-.

[Richard Williams]

Thanks Leonardo. When I do creturn list,

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        c(current_date) = "23 Feb 2023"
        c(current_time) = "17:18:11"
           c(rmsg_time) = 0                          (seconds, from set rmsg)
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
       c(stata_version) = 17
             c(version) = 17                         (version)
         c(userversion) = 17                         (version)
      c(dyndoc_version) = 2                          (dyndoc)
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
           c(born_date) = "10 Jan 2023"
             c(edition) = "BE"
        c(edition_real) = "MP"
                 c(bit) = 64
                  c(SE) = 1
                  c(MP) = 1
          c(processors) = 2                          (Stata/MP, set processors)
      c(processors_lic) = 2
     c(processors_mach) = 20
      c(processors_max) = 2
                c(mode) = ""
             c(console) = ""
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Notice the born date of 10 Jan 2023.