I am using Stata 16 MP on a new iMac with macOS Majove (10.14) and noticed in the Activity Monitor (an application that comes with a mac) that Stata is taking up >31gb memory out of a total of 32gb, which is a surprisingly large to me.

To give more context, I was using a .dta of size ~32gb and was using for-loops to run regressions with reghdfe command and plot graphs with binscatter command and I did not use `set memory xxx' to change the default memory setting.

I have not monitored stata memory usage on stata 15 or earlier versions of macOS, so I am not sure whether it's a stata16 issue or a macOS 10.14 issue.

I know that I could change the default memory setting with `set memory xxx', but I'm just wondering whether it could be a bug with stata16 - as it's just out - that there's something wrong with the memory management that it could take up the entire physical memory of a computer.

Many thanks for your help! I really appreciate it!