> The problem is simple to solve: why are you running a local
> application inside a server that's meant to be 24x7? Nobody that has
> passed a sanity check would touch such sensitive server. I don't know
> why you would use an application that tends to crash directly in the
> db server machine. It doesn't make sense for me.

I make perfect sence to me <g>

Many of my applications have local copies of the server
running simply because we want to maintain 24/7 even if the
network fails.

That may not be the case here, but I agree that this looks
like a machine problem rather than Firebird.

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