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+controller -> server:
+Just lines of text, see either program's main.c.
+
+server -> controller:
+Data frames compressed using zlib. Data frames look as follows:
+- Timestamp: (as from gettimeofday)
+  - seconds (8 bytes)
+  - microseconds (4 bytes)
+- numpids (8 bytes)
+- [numpids times:]
+  - pid (4 bytes)
+  - namelen (8 bytes)
+  - process name (namelen bytes)
+  - total user time (8 bytes)
+  - total system time (8 bytes)
+  - resident size (8 bytes)