{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/keybase/keybase-issues/issues/2167","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/keybase/keybase-issues","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/keybase/keybase-issues/issues/2167/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/keybase/keybase-issues/issues/2167/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/keybase/keybase-issues/issues/2167/events","html_url":"https://github.com/keybase/keybase-issues/issues/2167","id":144732463,"number":2167,"title":"keybase encrypt large file memory usage","user":{"login":"travcunn","id":3720254,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3720254?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/travcunn","html_url":"https://github.com/travcunn","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/travcunn/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/travcunn/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/travcunn/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/travcunn/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/travcunn/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/travcunn/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/travcunn/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/travcunn/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/travcunn/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":2,"created_at":"2016-03-30T21:59:38Z","updated_at":"2016-03-31T14:49:32Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I am using keybase to backup my home directory. After about 50 GB has been written to the disk, I notice keybase is using about 4.5 GB of memory. How can I encrypt large files without running into memory problems?\r\n\r\nHere is the command I use:\r\n```tar -zcvf - /home/travis | xz -8 | keybase encrypt travcunn > backup.bak```"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/keybase/keybase-issues/issues/comments/203972220","html_url":"https://github.com/keybase/keybase-issues/issues/2167#issuecomment-203972220","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/keybase/keybase-issues/issues/2167","id":203972220,"user":{"login":"patrickxb","id":2508,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2508?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/patrickxb","html_url":"https://github.com/patrickxb","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/patrickxb/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/patrickxb/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/patrickxb/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/patrickxb/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/patrickxb/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/patrickxb/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/patrickxb/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/patrickxb/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/patrickxb/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-03-31T14:49:32Z","updated_at":"2016-03-31T14:49:32Z","body":"@travcunn You probably want to output binary instead of armored: `keybase encrypt -b travcunn ...`"}}