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diff --git a/src/tcp_acceptor.erl b/src/tcp_acceptor.erl
index 3b23daa5..cc4982c9 100644
--- a/src/tcp_acceptor.erl
+++ b/src/tcp_acceptor.erl
@@ -75,6 +75,13 @@ handle_info({inet_async, LSock, Ref, {ok, Sock}},
error_logger:info_msg("accepted TCP connection on ~s:~p from ~s:~p~n",
[inet_parse:ntoa(Address), Port,
inet_parse:ntoa(PeerAddress), PeerPort]),
+ %% In the event that somebody floods us with connections we can spew
+ %% the above message at error_logger faster than it can keep up.
+ %% So error_logger's mailbox grows unbounded until we eat all the
+ %% memory available and crash. So here's a meaningless synchronous call
+ %% to the underlying gen_event mechanism - when it returns the mailbox
+ %% is drained.
+ gen_event:which_handlers(error_logger),
%% handle
file_handle_cache:release_on_death(apply(M, F, A ++ [Sock]))
catch {inet_error, Reason} ->