Tom Austin <voi### [at] voidnet> wrote:
> Workstations could not access the file shares.

> After some looking - memory module went dead - of course it had to be 
> the 'big' one - so from 2.5 GB down to 1.5GB.....

  One would think that if the server is mission-critical, it would have
redundant hardware. In other words, if for example a memory module dies,
the only consequence is that the amount of available RAM decreases and
a big-ass notification is logged somewhere, but otherwise the service
continues as usual.

  Of course this requires specialized server hardware, as well as
software support. (I don't even know if Windows supports this. I'm
assuming NT and its spawns ought to, but I have never heard either way.)

  And also I'm assuming this is not cheap, so management do not want.

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