ganglia/monitor-core — Issue #14: gmetad buffer overflow with metric value of DOUBLE_MAX 
Author: reznor
Created: 2012-02-15 03:21:29+00:00
State: open

See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8052 for a description of the problem - in essence, 256 bytes is not wide enough to store the maximum value that can be stored in a double precision variable.