FileChannel.transferTo fails with large files

[Mark Thornton]

Operating system: Vista 32 bit
JVM 1.6 u10
Heap size 1200MB
File size ~ 1GB

It appears to work by memory mapping the file in one piece which not 
surprisingly fails in these circumstances (large file, large heap, 32 
bit process). The resulting OutOfMemoryError is not what I would expect 
from reading the method documentation.

Should this implementation be reconsidered?

Mark Thornton