ganglia/monitor-core — pull request #15 by reznor (2012-02-15 03:41:51+00:00)
Title: gmetad buffer overflow with metric value of DOUBLE_MAX 

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.