• Version: v6.2.1
• Platform: Darwin me.local 15.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 15.5.0: Tue Apr 19 18:36:36 PDT 2016; root:xnu-3248.50.21~8/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
• Subsystem: child_process

Currently maxBuffer for child_process.exec is set to 200*1024 bytes, or ~204.8KB. I ran into an issue where my child process was being terminated and tracking it down was quite tough. It ended up being that it was producing enough output that it exceeded maxBuffer.

I think the buffer size is too small and this behavior (terminating a child) is drastic enough that it should only be done in the case where a child is producing a much larger amount of output.

I'm not sure what's sane here, perhaps 5MB+?