Problem since upgrading to 4.2.0 from 4.1 - "data flooding from"

[Rob MacGregor]

On 8/17/07, Rob MacGregor <rob.macgregor at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've just upgraded my Hobbit server from 4.1 to 4.2 (on a Gentoo
> 2006.1 host), having had a need for "Disabled until OK" :)
>
> The trouble that I now have is that reports from the client part of
> the server install are never making it through - all tests have turned
> purple and the log is full of "data flooding from 127.0.0.1, closing
> connection".

The problem eventually turned out to be the volume of output from the
ps command.  We have java server software on the host in question,
with a *very* long command line - each line totals over 4K characters
- and over 900 processes.  The total output of ps came to some 4
million characters.

By truncating the output of ps at an arbitrary 132 characters that
output was cut to about 140 thousand characters and hobbit was happy
once more :)

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