op sys refuses to provid memory error

[Tara Boyle]

Hi I have done an all nighter running my very large dataset analyses. Have had no issues overnight and over the past few days.
This morning, I was running the same dataset again (no changes)- and it won't even load my -dta- file. I get this error

Do you think this is an error from my side or the administrator?

Of note, I need to connect from my PC to a remote desktop, use stata from there, owned by the administrator and the platform does not have internet access for security reasons.

I've emailed the administrator to find out if they made any changes this morning, however is there something I can do from my end?

[Clyde Schechter]

Well, the error message itself offers you several possible explanations. In my own experience of similar situations, the most likely one is that somebody else is running something on the remote machine and using a lot of memory, with not enough left over for your job. It is also possible that you, yourself, are that somebody else--consider the possibility and perhaps kill some of the other things you are running there if that is the case. If it's truly somebody else, you may have to wait until their work is done. I suppose you could contact the administrator of the remote machine to find out if that person can help you out, but there may or may not be anything they can do for you.

The other thing to think about doing for yourself is to consider whether you really need the entire data set for your present purposes. Remember that the -use- command allows -if- and -in- clauses and the specification of a -varlist-. If you qualify your -use-command so that it only asks Stata to read in those variables and observations that you actually need to run the current job, that may enable you to run the job within the memory that is presently available to you. It may also speed up execution of that job as a side benefit.

[Tara Boyle]

thanks, gave it a break and it started working again !