diff --git a/src/ckpool.c b/src/ckpool.c
index a54c68b4..6b9d1853 100644
--- a/src/ckpool.c
+++ b/src/ckpool.c
@@ -718,7 +718,8 @@ out:
 
 /* Send a single message to a process instance when there will be no response,
  * closing the socket immediately. */
-void _send_proc_data(proc_instance_t *pi, const char *msg, const char *file, const char *func, const int line)
+void _send_proc_data(proc_instance_t *pi, const char *msg, uint32_t len, const char *file,
+		     const char *func, const int line)
 {
 	char *path = pi->us.path;
 	bool ret = false;
@@ -748,7 +749,7 @@ void _send_proc_data(proc_instance_t *pi, const char *msg, const char *file, con
 		LOGWARNING("Failed to open socket %s", path);
 		goto out;
 	}
-	if (unlikely(!send_unix_msg(sockd, msg)))
+	if (unlikely(!send_unix(sockd, msg, len)))
 		LOGWARNING("Failed to send %s to socket %s", msg, path);
 	else
 		ret = true;
@@ -761,11 +762,13 @@ out:
 /* As per send_proc_data but must be a string */
 void _send_proc(proc_instance_t *pi, const char *msg, const char *file, const char *func, const int line)
 {
-	if (unlikely(!msg || !strlen(msg))) {
+	uint32_t len;
+
+	if (unlikely(!msg || !(len = strlen(msg)))) {
 		LOGERR("Attempted to send null message to %s in send_proc", pi->processname);
 		return;
 	}
-	return _send_proc_data(pi, msg, file, func, line);
+	return _send_proc_data(pi, msg, len, file, func, line);
 }
 
 /* Send a single message to a process instance and retrieve the response, then
diff --git a/src/ckpool.h b/src/ckpool.h
index 100c5cbe..8d0c33dc 100644
--- a/src/ckpool.h
+++ b/src/ckpool.h
@@ -326,8 +326,9 @@ void empty_buffer(connsock_t *cs);
 int set_sendbufsize(ckpool_t *ckp, const int fd, const int len);
 int set_recvbufsize(ckpool_t *ckp, const int fd, const int len);
 int read_socket_line(connsock_t *cs, float *timeout);
-void _send_proc_data(proc_instance_t *pi, const char *msg, const char *file, const char *func, const int line);
-#define send_proc_data(pi, msg) _send_proc_data(pi, msg, __FILE__, __func__, __LINE__)
+void _send_proc_data(proc_instance_t *pi, const char *msg, uint32_t len, const char *file,
+		     const char *func, const int line);
+#define send_proc_data(pi, msg, len) _send_proc_data(pi, msg, len, __FILE__, __func__, __LINE__)
 void _send_proc(proc_instance_t *pi, const char *msg, const char *file, const char *func, const int line);
 #define send_proc(pi, msg) _send_proc(pi, msg, __FILE__, __func__, __LINE__)
 char *_send_recv_proc(proc_instance_t *pi, const char *msg, int writetimeout, int readtimedout,
diff --git a/src/connector.c b/src/connector.c
index 1bb09824..46bcf6ff 100644
--- a/src/connector.c
+++ b/src/connector.c
@@ -1199,7 +1199,7 @@ out:
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static void process_client_msg(cdata_t *cdata, char *buf)
+static void process_client_msg(cdata_t *cdata, char *buf, uint32_t msglen)
 {
 	char *msg, *bkey = NULL;
 	int64_t client_id;
@@ -1207,18 +1207,20 @@ static void process_client_msg(cdata_t *cdata, char *buf)
 	int len;
 
 	len = strlen(buf);
-	if (len > 4 && !strncmp((buf + len - 4 - 1), "bkey", 4)) {
-		LOGWARNING("Bkey found in process_client_msg");
-		buf[len - 4 - 1] = '\0';
-		bkey = buf + len + 1;
+	if (likely(len > 4)) {
+		bkey = strstr(buf + len - 4 - 1, "bkey");
+		if (bkey)
+			LOGDEBUG("Bkey found in process_client_msg");
 	}
-	json_msg = json_loads(buf, 0, NULL);
+	json_msg = json_loads(buf, JSON_DISABLE_EOF_CHECK, NULL);
 	if (unlikely(!json_msg)) {
 		LOGWARNING("Invalid json message in process_client_msg: %s", buf);
 		return;
 	}
-	if (unlikely(bkey))
+	if (unlikely(bkey)) {
+		LOGWARNING("Bkey should be at %d, msglen %u", len + 1, msglen);
 		json_append_bkeys(json_msg, bkey);
+	}
 
 	/* Extract the client id from the json message and remove its entry */
 	client_id = json_integer_value(json_object_get(json_msg, "client_id"));
@@ -1342,7 +1344,7 @@ retry:
 	/* The bulk of the messages will be json messages to send to clients
 	 * so look for them first. */
 	if (likely(buf[0] == '{')) {
-		process_client_msg(cdata, buf);
+		process_client_msg(cdata, buf, umsg->msglen);
 	} else if (cmdmatch(buf, "upstream=")) {
 		char *msg = strdup(buf + 9);
 
diff --git a/src/libckpool.c b/src/libckpool.c
index 93261c1a..09561daf 100644
--- a/src/libckpool.c
+++ b/src/libckpool.c
@@ -1331,19 +1331,22 @@ void _bkey_add_hex(char **bkey, const char *key, const char *hex, const char *fi
 	msglen = le32toh(*lenptr);
 
 	/* Add $key+length+bin */
-	newlen = len + msglen + hlen;
+	newlen = msglen + len + BKEY_LENLEN + hlen;
 	*bkey = realloc(*bkey, round_up_page(newlen));
 
 	/* Append keyname */
+	LOGDEBUG("Adding key %s @ ofs %u", key, msglen);
 	sprintf(*bkey + msglen, "%s", key);
 	msglen += len;
 
 	/* Append bin length */
+	LOGDEBUG("Adding len %u @ ofs %u", hlen, msglen);
 	lenptr = (uint32_t *)(*bkey + msglen);
 	*lenptr = htole32(hlen);
 	msglen += BKEY_LENLEN;
 
 	/* Append binary data */
+	LOGDEBUG("Adding hex of len %u @ ofs %u %s", hlen, msglen, hex);
 	hex2bin(*bkey + msglen, hex, hlen);
 
 	/* Adjust message length header */
@@ -1380,19 +1383,22 @@ void _bkey_add_bin(char **bkey, const char *key, const char *bin, const int blen
 	msglen = le32toh(*lenptr);
 
 	/* Add $key+length+bin */
-	newlen = len + 4 + blen;
+	newlen = msglen + len + BKEY_LENLEN + blen;
 	*bkey = realloc(*bkey, round_up_page(newlen));
 
 	/* Append keyname */
+	LOGDEBUG("Adding key %s @ ofs %u", key, msglen);
 	sprintf(*bkey + msglen, "%s", key);
 	msglen += len;
 
 	/* Append bin length */
+	LOGDEBUG("Adding len %u @ ofs %u", blen, msglen);
 	lenptr = (uint32_t *)(*bkey + msglen);
 	*lenptr = htole32(blen);
-	msglen += 4;
+	msglen += BKEY_LENLEN;
 
 	/* Append binary data */
+	LOGDEBUG("Adding bin of len %u @ ofs %u", blen, msglen);
 	memcpy(*bkey + msglen, bin, blen);
 
 	/* Adjust message length header */
@@ -1417,14 +1423,14 @@ void _json_append_bkeys(json_t *val, const char *bkey, const char *file, const c
 		char *hex;
 
 		key = bkey + ofs;
-		LOGWARNING("Found key %s", key);
+		LOGDEBUG("Found key %s @ ofs %u", key, ofs);
 		ofs += strlen(key) + 1;
 		lenptr = (uint32_t *)(bkey + ofs);
 		binlen = le32toh(*lenptr);
+		LOGDEBUG("Found binlen %u @ ofs %u", binlen, ofs);
 		ofs += BKEY_LENLEN;
-		LOGWARNING("Found binlen %u", binlen);
 		hex = bin2hex(bkey + ofs, binlen);
-		LOGWARNING("Found hex %s", hex);
+		LOGDEBUG("Found hex %s @ ofs %u", hex, ofs);
 		json_set_string(val, key, hex);
 		free(hex);
 		ofs += binlen;
diff --git a/src/stratifier.c b/src/stratifier.c
index d39b5342..6581f7c3 100644
--- a/src/stratifier.c
+++ b/src/stratifier.c
@@ -6261,14 +6261,15 @@ static void ssend_process(ckpool_t *ckp, smsg_t *msg)
 	 * connector process to be delivered */
 	json_object_set_new_nocheck(msg->json_msg, "client_id", json_integer(msg->client_id));
 	s = json_dumps(msg->json_msg, JSON_COMPACT);
-	if (msg->bkeylen) {
+	if (unlikely(msg->bkeylen)) {
 		int len = strlen(s);
 
 		s = realloc(s, len + msg->bkeylen);
 		memcpy(s + len, msg->bkey, msg->bkeylen);
 		free(msg->bkey);
-	}
-	send_proc(ckp->connector, s);
+		send_proc_data(ckp->connector, s, len + msg->bkeylen);
+	} else
+		send_proc(ckp->connector, s);
 	free(s);
 	free_smsg(msg);
 }