getResponseBodyAsStream throws OOM

[charlesk40]

OOM is thrown when requesting a file size around 500 mb.
I thought the getResponseBodyAsStream supposed to be used for this exact case where we are requesting a big size data and use stream for it. It seems to me that we are actually writing out the entire data here.

Is there any other ways to get this data using a synchronous call?

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
Dumping heap to /home/y/logs/yjava_tomcat/java_pid29120.hprof ...
Heap dump file created [1674393227 bytes in 3.792 secs]
Exception in thread "ajp-bio-/127.0.0.1-8009-exec-1" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
at org.jboss.netty.buffer.HeapChannelBuffer.(HeapChannelBuffer.java:42)
at org.jboss.netty.buffer.BigEndianHeapChannelBuffer.(BigEndianHeapChannelBuffer.java:34)
at org.jboss.netty.buffer.ChannelBuffers.buffer(ChannelBuffers.java:134)
at org.jboss.netty.buffer.HeapChannelBufferFactory.getBuffer(HeapChannelBufferFactory.java:69)
at org.jboss.netty.buffer.DynamicChannelBuffer.ensureWritableBytes(DynamicChannelBuffer.java:78)
at org.jboss.netty.buffer.DynamicChannelBuffer.writeBytes(DynamicChannelBuffer.java:227)
at org.jboss.netty.buffer.AbstractChannelBuffer.writeBytes(AbstractChannelBuffer.java:441)
at com.ning.http.client.providers.netty.NettyResponse.getResponseBodyAsStream(NettyResponse.java:106)