diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Process/ProcessPipes.php b/src/Symfony/Component/Process/ProcessPipes.php
index 67b11e615ba7..d1b434ebf884 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/Process/ProcessPipes.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Process/ProcessPipes.php
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ class ProcessPipes
     /** @var Boolean */
     private $ttyMode;
 
+    const CHUNK_SIZE = 16384;
+
     public function __construct($useFiles, $ttyMode)
     {
         $this->useFiles = (Boolean) $useFiles;
@@ -233,7 +235,7 @@ private function readFileHandles($close = false)
             $data = '';
             $dataread = null;
             while (!feof($fileHandle)) {
-                if (false !== $dataread = fread($fileHandle, 16392)) {
+                if (false !== $dataread = fread($fileHandle, self::CHUNK_SIZE)) {
                     $data .= $dataread;
                 }
             }
@@ -291,7 +293,7 @@ private function readStreams($blocking, $close = false)
             $type = array_search($pipe, $this->pipes);
 
             $data = '';
-            while ($dataread = fread($pipe, 8192)) {
+            while ($dataread = fread($pipe, self::CHUNK_SIZE)) {
                 $data .= $dataread;
             }
 
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Process/Tests/AbstractProcessTest.php b/src/Symfony/Component/Process/Tests/AbstractProcessTest.php
index 6401ec33e482..bc6fcf473b09 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/Process/Tests/AbstractProcessTest.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Process/Tests/AbstractProcessTest.php
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 
 use Symfony\Component\Process\Process;
 use Symfony\Component\Process\Exception\RuntimeException;
+use Symfony\Component\Process\ProcessPipes;
 
 /**
  * @author Robert Schönthal <seroscho@googlemail.com>
@@ -87,18 +88,20 @@ public function testAllOutputIsActuallyReadOnTermination()
         // has terminated so the internal pipes array is already empty. normally
         // the call to start() will not read any data as the process will not have
         // generated output, but this is non-deterministic so we must count it as
-        // a possibility.  therefore we need 2 * 8192 plus another byte which will
-        // never be read.
-        $expectedOutputSize = 16385;
+        // a possibility.  therefore we need 2 * ProcessPipes::CHUNK_SIZE plus
+        // another byte which will never be read.
+        $expectedOutputSize = ProcessPipes::CHUNK_SIZE * 2 + 2;
 
         $code = sprintf('echo str_repeat(\'*\', %d);', $expectedOutputSize);
         $p = $this->getProcess(sprintf('php -r %s', escapeshellarg($code)));
 
         $p->start();
-        usleep(250000);
+        // Let's wait enough time for process to finish...
+        // Here we don't call Process::run or Process::wait to avoid any read of pipes
+        usleep(500000);
 
         if ($p->isRunning()) {
-            $this->fail('Process execution did not complete in the required time frame');
+            $this->markTestSkipped('Process execution did not complete in the required time frame');
         }
 
         $o = $p->getOutput();