Forms services down !

Hello,
I have problem at Forms Services inside my Application Server Middle tier 10g.
Every thing starts fine except Forms services (it was good yesterday, problem appears after an electricity failure), this is E:\as_mt\sysman\log\emagent.trc
+[oracle_forms,mt.castwo.click-syria.com_Forms,Load] : nmeegd_GetMetricData failed : Illegal division by zero at E:/as_mt/sysman/admin/scripts/formsinit.pl line 222.+
+2010-12-14 11:01:58 Thread-5332 ERROR fetchlets.oslinetok: Process stderr = Illegal division by zero at E:/as_mt/sysman/admin/scripts/formsinit.pl line 222.+
+2010-12-14 11:01:58 Thread-5332 ERROR engine: [oracle_forms,mt.castwo.click.com_Forms,JvmLoad] : nmeegd_GetMetricData failed : Illegal division by zero at E:/as_mt/sysman/admin/scripts/formsinit.pl line 222.+
And this is E:\as_mt\sysman\admin\scripts\formsinit.pl
+$totalPercent = $totalPrivate*100/$realMemory;+
So what did that means ?
There's about 2 GB free memory at the server
Thank you and appreciate your help

Resolved by switching to Win Server 2K3 Standard R2
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