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 I have been trying to get CFMX 7 running on a 'server' of mine for quite sometime.  I use the term 'server' liberally here, it is a barebones system I bought to use as a development server at home.

The 'server' met or exceeded all of the system requirements, yet, CF would crash with frightening regularity (the worst was 8 times in 12 minutes).  I contacted MM for support, but didn't want to pay $500.00 for the support call, and posted numerous messages on various CF mailing lists.

Since the 'server' only had 512MB of memory (the minimum as per the system requirements), I thought that maybe upping the memory might help the situation.  Yesterday, I installed 1 GB of memory and after chekcing to make sure everything was OK I found what I think was the root of the issue.  While I had a 512 MB module installed, the on-board video card was sharing 32MB of it.  So in reality, I only had 480MB of memory for use by the system. I will be buying a cheap video card to reclaim that 323MB.

I ounished the server as best as I could.  I ran code that, while not every time, frequently would cause CF to crash.  After about an hour CF was still running strong (this was the longest CF stayed running, without a crash, while I was doing development work).

What's the moral to this rather embarassing story?  Make sure a box actually meets the system requirements for any software you install..oh, yea...and shared memory = less badder.