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Attempt to allocate Buffer larger than maximum size #1547

Open xcoderzach opened 9 years ago

xcoderzach commented 9 years ago

I'm getting the error: 

RangeError: Attempt to allocate Buffer larger than maximum size: 0x3fffffff bytes
    at new Buffer (buffer.js:71:11)
    at Function.Buffer.concat (buffer.js:211:16)
    at BufferOutStream.exports.BufferOutStream.BufferOutStream.data (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/keybase/node_modules/iced-spawn/lib/stream.js:102:21)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/keybase/node_modules/iced-spawn/lib/cmd.js:484:32
    at Deferrals.exports.Deferrals.Deferrals._call (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/keybase/node_modules/iced-runtime/lib/runtime.js:86:16)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/keybase/node_modules/iced-runtime/lib/runtime.js:98:26
    at exports.trampoline.trampoline (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/keybase/node_modules/iced-runtime/lib/runtime.js:64:14)
    at Deferrals.exports.Deferrals.Deferrals._fulfill (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/keybase/node_modules/iced-runtime/lib/runtime.js:96:16)
    at ret (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/keybase/node_modules/iced-runtime/lib/runtime.js:29:18)
    at SpawnEngine.BaseEngine._maybe_call_callback (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/keybase/node_modules/iced-spawn/lib/cmd.js:57:16)

when I try to decrypt a 950mb file.

maxtaco commented 9 years ago

weird, i've never seen this one before. what's the context?

xcoderzach commented 9 years ago

We were trying to securely send a large ~6gb text file. So we keybase encrypted it, sent it over airdrop, and keybase decrypted it, which is when I got this error.

xcoderzach commented 9 years ago

Is it weird that 6gb plaintext becomes only 950mb encrypted?

maxtaco commented 9 years ago

PGP has compression in the spec. It's a little bit of everything. Sorry I didn't see your mention of a 950mb file. Unfortunately we haven't gotten streaming to work yet in our library. Grrr, we had a branch but had to switch onto something else. You could use gpg --decrypt just for now. Sorry about that.

xcoderzach commented 9 years ago

Good to know, and thanks for the great product!