diff --git a/cmd/helm/list.go b/cmd/helm/list.go
index 0219d60f2..4332ceb21 100644
--- a/cmd/helm/list.go
+++ b/cmd/helm/list.go
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ func (l *listCmd) run() error {
 		return prettyError(err)
 	}
 
-	if len(res.Releases) == 0 {
+	if len(res.GetReleases()) == 0 {
 		return nil
 	}
 
@@ -239,12 +239,16 @@ func formatList(rels []*release.Release, colWidth uint) string {
 	table.MaxColWidth = colWidth
 	table.AddRow("NAME", "REVISION", "UPDATED", "STATUS", "CHART", "NAMESPACE")
 	for _, r := range rels {
-		c := fmt.Sprintf("%s-%s", r.Chart.Metadata.Name, r.Chart.Metadata.Version)
-		t := timeconv.String(r.Info.LastDeployed)
-		s := r.Info.Status.Code.String()
-		v := r.Version
-		n := r.Namespace
-		table.AddRow(r.Name, v, t, s, c, n)
+		md := r.GetChart().GetMetadata()
+		c := fmt.Sprintf("%s-%s", md.GetName(), md.GetVersion())
+		t := "-"
+		if tspb := r.GetInfo().GetLastDeployed(); tspb != nil {
+			t = timeconv.String(tspb)
+		}
+		s := r.GetInfo().GetStatus().GetCode().String()
+		v := r.GetVersion()
+		n := r.GetNamespace()
+		table.AddRow(r.GetName(), v, t, s, c, n)
 	}
 	return table.String()
 }
diff --git a/pkg/helm/client.go b/pkg/helm/client.go
index 2fb1e54e4..43e9f4daf 100644
--- a/pkg/helm/client.go
+++ b/pkg/helm/client.go
@@ -346,8 +346,22 @@ func (h *Client) list(ctx context.Context, req *rls.ListReleasesRequest) (*rls.L
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
-
-	return s.Recv()
+	var resp *rls.ListReleasesResponse
+	for {
+		r, err := s.Recv()
+		if err == io.EOF {
+			break
+		}
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		if resp == nil {
+			resp = r
+			continue
+		}
+		resp.Releases = append(resp.Releases, r.GetReleases()[0])
+	}
+	return resp, nil
 }
 
 // Executes tiller.InstallRelease RPC.
diff --git a/pkg/tiller/release_list.go b/pkg/tiller/release_list.go
index 9ccc8a686..72c21d97c 100644
--- a/pkg/tiller/release_list.go
+++ b/pkg/tiller/release_list.go
@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ package tiller
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
-	"regexp"
-
+	"github.com/golang/protobuf/proto"
 	"k8s.io/helm/pkg/proto/hapi/release"
 	"k8s.io/helm/pkg/proto/hapi/services"
 	relutil "k8s.io/helm/pkg/releaseutil"
+	"regexp"
 )
 
 // ListReleases lists the releases found by the server.
@@ -107,14 +107,50 @@ func (s *ReleaseServer) ListReleases(req *services.ListReleasesRequest, stream s
 		rels = rels[0:req.Limit]
 		l = int64(len(rels))
 	}
-
 	res := &services.ListReleasesResponse{
-		Next:     next,
-		Count:    l,
-		Total:    total,
-		Releases: rels,
+		Next:  next,
+		Count: l,
+		Total: total,
 	}
-	return stream.Send(res)
+	chunks := s.partition(rels[:min(len(rels), int(req.Limit))], maxMsgSize-proto.Size(res))
+	for res.Releases = range chunks {
+		if err := stream.Send(res); err != nil {
+			for range chunks { // drain
+			}
+			return err
+		}
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// partition packs releases into slices upto the capacity cap in bytes.
+func (s *ReleaseServer) partition(rels []*release.Release, cap int) <-chan []*release.Release {
+	chunks := make(chan []*release.Release, 1)
+	go func() {
+		var (
+			fill = 0 // fill is space available to fill
+			size int // size is size of a release
+		)
+		var chunk []*release.Release
+		for _, rls := range rels {
+			if size = proto.Size(rls); size+fill > cap {
+				// Over-cap, push chunk onto channel to send over gRPC stream
+				s.Log("partitioned at %d with %d releases (cap=%d)", fill, len(chunk), cap)
+				chunks <- chunk
+				// reset paritioning state
+				chunk = chunk[:0]
+				fill = 0
+			}
+			chunk = append(chunk, rls)
+			fill += size
+		}
+		if len(chunk) > 0 {
+			// send remaining if any
+			chunks <- chunk
+		}
+		close(chunks)
+	}()
+	return chunks
 }
 
 func filterByNamespace(namespace string, rels []*release.Release) ([]*release.Release, error) {