diff --git a/SunGridEngine/SgeConfig.py b/SunGridEngine/SgeConfig.py
index fcf350b..2647efc 100755
--- a/SunGridEngine/SgeConfig.py
+++ b/SunGridEngine/SgeConfig.py
@@ -121,6 +121,13 @@ class SgeConfig:
 			# 	only a single value is allowed for configuration attribute "administrator_mail"
 
 			cleaned_value = re.sub(',\s*', ',', v)
+
+			# prevent space pollution in space separated values, such as in reporting_params (see https://bugzilla.ipr.univ-rennes1.fr/show_bug.cgi?id=2812). If spaces are not compacted, the space separated values will contain more and more spaces and at some point corrupt the value : a line containing just a backslash, such as in the following example:
+			# reporting_params             accounting=true reporting=false                   \
+			#                              flush_time=00:00:15 joblog=false                  \
+			#                              sharelog=00:00:00
+			#  \
+			cleaned_value = re.sub('\s+', ' ', cleaned_value)
 			strResult += "%s %s\n" % (k, cleaned_value)
 		# print("strResult=%s" % strResult)
 		return strResult