:: >Even if so shouldn't FB just err and not crash?
::
:: That error, if caught and handled, won't cause the server to
:: crash. Because it is logged, you know that it has been
:: caught at least once.

Noooo - the error that the application gets is "Socket conenction aborted
abruptly" . FB just CRASHES. There is no chance to handle it - in fact the
whole server goes down - not just that DB.