How about your puppet government colluding with the soviet union to print a new currency in secret and surprising everyone with a currency reform over night:
NFS client code occasionally triggered this in the (distant) past, but that's just how it is when 'hard' mount option is chosen and the server becomes inaccessible for a prolonged time. The solution there is to get a reliable, sufficiently capable server and network (NOT to use 'soft' mounts as that can lead to silent data corruption) (and avoid cross-ocean mounts ;-}
But yes, running a VM on a grossly overloaded (over-committed memory?) host might trip timeout warnings as this as well.
> I bought a sled, so now IRIX is installed on a real 4GB SCSI Quantum Fireball HDD ... whilst it lasts, anyway.
Yeah, I think the disks are the crux of the matter. Afaik, SCSI disks (those with a parallel interface) haven't been made in decades (those with FC interface are still made, I think). IDE drives, OTOH, can trivially be replaced (upgraded) with CF cards. Is there a SCSI to IDE (oh the horror) adapter?
And me disposing of an Sun Ultra 60 because it (was ancient and) came with the inferior IDE interface ...
I grew up near a border; a border which changed a lot throughout history. Not to mention that the country I was born into didn't exist as such even a few generations ago. So yeah, I'd go with “randomly born in your country”.
Numeric simulation (HPC). Some, not all, simulations need lots of memory. In 2018 larger servers running such had 1TiB, so I'm not the least surprised that six years later it's 16.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Reserve_Act
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