--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Karl Geppert <karlg@...> wrote:

>
> On our firebird service we get periodic drops of service with the
> following error, which appears to indicate the desktop heap is out of
> space. It's win2k3 enterprise running with default settings. Does
> anyone have a good recommendation on how we avoid this issue?

Read this article

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ntdebugging/archive/2007/01/04/desktop-heap-overview.aspx

And set "Allow to interact with desktop" checkbox of Firebird service or edit registry to increase size of default heap

Regards,
Vlad