When the master attempts to connect to the OS X slave via SSH, it will establish the SSH connection, but fails with OutOfMemoryError during remoting communication.

[09/20/12 11:45:56] [SSH] Opening SSH connection to mavis:22.
[09/20/12 11:45:56] [SSH] Authenticating as jenkins with E:\Jenkins\id_dsa.
[09/20/12 11:45:57] [SSH] Authentication successful.
[09/20/12 11:45:58] [SSH] The remote users environment is:
BASH=/bin/bash
BASH_ARGC=()
BASH_ARGV=()
BASH_EXECUTION_STRING=set
BASH_LINENO=()
BASH_SOURCE=()
BASH_VERSINFO=([0]="3" [1]="2" [2]="48" [3]="1" [4]="release" [5]="x86_64-apple-darwin12")
BASH_VERSION='3.2.48(1)-release'
DIRSTACK=()
EUID=1571527887
GROUPS=()
HOME=/Users/jenkins
HOSTNAME=mavis.local
HOSTTYPE=x86_64
IFS=$' \t\n'
LOGNAME=jenkins
MACHTYPE=x86_64-apple-darwin12
MAIL=/var/mail/jenkins
OPTERR=1
OPTIND=1
OSTYPE=darwin12
PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
PPID=71651
PS4='+ '
PWD=/Users/jenkins
SHELL=/bin/bash
SHELLOPTS=braceexpand:hashall:interactive-comments
SHLVL=1
SSH_CLIENT='10.234.1.39 39636 22'
SSH_CONNECTION='10.234.1.39 39636 10.234.1.24 22'
TERM=dumb
TMPDIR=/var/folders/vp/nsslsj0x1fv8j8cw_3mkmw3dftq76g/T/
UID=1571527887
USER=jenkins
_=bash
[09/20/12 11:45:58] [SSH] Checking java version of java
[09/20/12 11:45:58] [SSH] java -version returned 1.6.0_33.
[09/20/12 11:45:58] [SSH] Starting sftp client.
[09/20/12 11:45:58] [SSH] Copying latest slave.jar...
[09/20/12 11:45:58] [SSH] Copied 278,201 bytes.
[09/20/12 11:45:58] [SSH] Starting slave process: cd '/var/jenkins' && java -jar slave.jar
<===[JENKINS REMOTING CAPACITY]===>channel started
Slave.jar version: 2.17
This is a Unix slave
ERROR: Unexpected error in launching a slave. This is probably a bug in Jenkins.
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredConstructors(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.MethodAccessorGenerator$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.MethodAccessorGenerator.generate(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.MethodAccessorGenerator.generateSerializationConstructor(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.ReflectionFactory.newConstructorForSerialization(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.getSerializableConstructor(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.access$1500(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectStreamClass$2.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.<init>(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.lookup(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.initNonProxy(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readNonProxyDesc(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readClassDesc(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(Unknown Source)
at hudson.remoting.Command.readFrom(Command.java:90)
at hudson.remoting.ClassicCommandTransport.read(ClassicCommandTransport.java:59)
at hudson.remoting.SynchronousCommandTransport$ReaderThread.run(SynchronousCommandTransport.java:48)
[09/20/12 11:45:59] [SSH] Connection closed.
ERROR: Connection terminated
java.io.IOException: Unexpected termination of the channel
at hudson.remoting.SynchronousCommandTransport$ReaderThread.run(SynchronousCommandTransport.java:50)
Caused by: java.io.EOFException
at java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.peekByte(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(Unknown Source)
at hudson.remoting.Command.readFrom(Command.java:90)
at hudson.remoting.ClassicCommandTransport.read(ClassicCommandTransport.java:59)
at hudson.remoting.SynchronousCommandTransport$ReaderThread.run(SynchronousCommandTransport.java:48)
ERROR: [09/20/12 11:45:59] slave agent was terminated
java.io.IOException: Unexpected termination of the channel
at hudson.remoting.SynchronousCommandTransport$ReaderThread.run(SynchronousCommandTransport.java:50)
Caused by: java.io.EOFException
at java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.peekByte(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(Unknown Source)
at hudson.remoting.Command.readFrom(Command.java:90)
at hudson.remoting.ClassicCommandTransport.read(ClassicCommandTransport.java:59)
at hudson.remoting.SynchronousCommandTransport$ReaderThread.run(SynchronousCommandTransport.java:48)