This bug has been copied from bug #588500 and has been proposed to be backported to 5.4 z-stream (EUS).
Created attachment 469920 [details] patch to fix problem
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 588898 ***
Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. New Contents: In high-loss networks, an assert based on a constant value for the retransmit message queue size could have caused a some nodes to receive SIGABRT signals, and therefore terminate. This constant value has been increased to correspond to the maximum number of entries, thus resolving the issue.