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Originally Posted by Paul M
Memories that probably have little to do with Windows 2003 Server ?
Are you just guessing that the memory is fried ? I'd be surprised if any machine carried on running happily with terminally dead memory, whatever OS it's running. The amount of RAM would be reported to the OS by the BIOS, so if Linux only sees 64M, then so would Windows - and it too would use swap file.
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Of course its not terminally dead machine cant boot without memory what exactly will the BIOS do ? - have you never seen fried memory where only a couple of banks work with the rest being unaddressable ?
It's happened to me before with a freebsd box. I dare not think how windows 2003 would be swapping with only 64Meg physical available to it nor do I dare think how it would cope having already buffered say 300Meg before the addressing issues occured.
Maybe you could find out if windows 2003 could cope with re-allocating the open buffers to swap ? I know exactly what happened with my box the services were HUP'd and thrown into swap.