A Well-Oiled Machine
In case you're wondering what the maximum amount of motor oil in your basement that can drip into the RAM banks of your Itanium2 with a lot of registered ECC DDR dimms, it's about this much:
There were other slightly less lubricated DIMMs in the server that continued to operate fine; this amount appears to be near the upper ceiling for RAM lubrication.
The more you know!
As a testement to enterprise stability, the machine operated just fine through the ordeal, albeit it stopped using 4GB out of the 12GB of RAM on board until I gave the motherboard and RAM a good ol' degreasing.
Only one DIMM actually was permanently damaged as a result of the ordeal; the rest have been put back into service.