Hi Brent,
I created a bug for you (GEOT-156) can you set up one against the GeoServer project - I am sure they care about large datasets as well. You can link the two bugs as needed.
Jody
Hello
I am using large datasets (200,000 features ~100Mb) loaded through the shapefile datasource.
I have had it work on smaller datasets quite well but it seems to die if I go large.
Any ideas on why this might be happening and if there is anything that I can do to get around this?Here is the stack trace. It dies in New IO: