diff --git a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/ChannelEvent.java b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/ChannelEvent.java
index 020cf47094..cd5d175c0a 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/ChannelEvent.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/ChannelEvent.java
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ import org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.ServerSocketChannel;
  * <td>{@code "channelOpen"}</td>
  * <td>{@link ChannelStateEvent}<br/>(state = {@link ChannelState#OPEN OPEN}, value = {@code true})</td>
  * <td>a {@link Channel} is open, but not bound nor connected</td>
+ * <td><strong>Be aware that this event is fired from within the Boss-Thread so you should not execute any heavy operation in there as it will block the dispatching to other workers!</strong></td>
  * </tr>
  * <tr>
  * <td>{@code "channelClosed"}</td>
@@ -80,7 +81,8 @@ import org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.ServerSocketChannel;
  * <tr>
  * <td>{@code "channelBound"}</td>
  * <td>{@link ChannelStateEvent}<br/>(state = {@link ChannelState#BOUND BOUND}, value = {@link SocketAddress})</td>
- * <td>a {@link Channel} is open and bound to a local address, but not connected</td>
+ * <td>a {@link Channel} is open and bound to a local address, but not connected.</td>
+ * <td><strong>Be aware that this event is fired from within the Boss-Thread so you should not execute any heavy operation in there as it will block the dispatching to other workers!</strong></td>
  * </tr>
  * <tr>
  * <td>{@code "channelUnbound"}</td>
@@ -91,6 +93,7 @@ import org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.ServerSocketChannel;
  * <td>{@code "channelConnected"}</td>
  * <td>{@link ChannelStateEvent}<br/>(state = {@link ChannelState#CONNECTED CONNECTED}, value = {@link SocketAddress})</td>
  * <td>a {@link Channel} is open, bound to a local address, and connected to a remote address</td>
+ * <td><strong>Be aware that this event is fired from within the Boss-Thread so you should not execute any heavy operation in there as it will block the dispatching to other workers!</strong></td>
  * </tr>
  * <tr>
  * <td>{@code "writeComplete"}</td>
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/ChannelLocal.java b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/ChannelLocal.java
index 407700ee3f..32abb6ae6a 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/ChannelLocal.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/ChannelLocal.java
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ public class ChannelLocal<T> {
      * Returns the initial value of the variable.  By default, it returns
      * {@code null}.  Override it to change the initial value.
      */
-    protected T initialValue(@SuppressWarnings("unused") Channel channel) {
+    protected T initialValue(Channel channel) {
         return null;
     }
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/SimpleChannelUpstreamHandler.java b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/SimpleChannelUpstreamHandler.java
index 590a04a7c6..8fc3c286bf 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/SimpleChannelUpstreamHandler.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/SimpleChannelUpstreamHandler.java
@@ -150,6 +150,9 @@ public class SimpleChannelUpstreamHandler implements ChannelUpstreamHandler {
 
     /**
      * Invoked when a {@link Channel} is open, but not bound nor connected.
+     * <br/>
+     * 
+     * <strong>Be aware that this event is fired from within the Boss-Thread so you should not execute any heavy operation in there as it will block the dispatching to other workers!</strong>
      */
     public void channelOpen(
             ChannelHandlerContext ctx, ChannelStateEvent e) throws Exception {
@@ -159,6 +162,9 @@ public class SimpleChannelUpstreamHandler implements ChannelUpstreamHandler {
     /**
      * Invoked when a {@link Channel} is open and bound to a local address,
      * but not connected.
+     * <br/>
+     * 
+     * <strong>Be aware that this event is fired from within the Boss-Thread so you should not execute any heavy operation in there as it will block the dispatching to other workers!</strong>
      */
     public void channelBound(
             ChannelHandlerContext ctx, ChannelStateEvent e) throws Exception {
@@ -168,6 +174,9 @@ public class SimpleChannelUpstreamHandler implements ChannelUpstreamHandler {
     /**
      * Invoked when a {@link Channel} is open, bound to a local address, and
      * connected to a remote address.
+     * <br/>
+     * 
+     * <strong>Be aware that this event is fired from within the Boss-Thread so you should not execute any heavy operation in there as it will block the dispatching to other workers!</strong>
      */
     public void channelConnected(
             ChannelHandlerContext ctx, ChannelStateEvent e) throws Exception {
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/nio/NioAcceptedSocketChannel.java b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/nio/NioAcceptedSocketChannel.java
index d9ee05ded5..187b727d3b 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/nio/NioAcceptedSocketChannel.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/nio/NioAcceptedSocketChannel.java
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@
  */
 package org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.nio;
 
-import static org.jboss.netty.channel.Channels.*;
+import static org.jboss.netty.channel.Channels.fireChannelBound;
+import static org.jboss.netty.channel.Channels.fireChannelOpen;
 
 import java.nio.channels.SocketChannel;
 
@@ -46,8 +47,8 @@ final class NioAcceptedSocketChannel extends NioSocketChannel {
         this.bossThread = bossThread;
 
         setConnected();
+        
         fireChannelOpen(this);
         fireChannelBound(this, getLocalAddress());
-        fireChannelConnected(this, getRemoteAddress());
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/nio/NioSocketChannel.java b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/nio/NioSocketChannel.java
index 7b547b7b8a..6dc97527a5 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/nio/NioSocketChannel.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/nio/NioSocketChannel.java
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ import org.jboss.netty.channel.AbstractChannel;
 import org.jboss.netty.channel.Channel;
 import org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelFactory;
 import org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelFuture;
-import org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelFutureListener;
 import org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelPipeline;
 import org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelSink;
 import org.jboss.netty.channel.MessageEvent;
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/nio/NioWorker.java b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/nio/NioWorker.java
index 8618ab3c4e..0618dec97f 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/nio/NioWorker.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/nio/NioWorker.java
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ class NioWorker implements Runnable {
 
     private final SocketReceiveBufferPool recvBufferPool = new SocketReceiveBufferPool();
     private final SocketSendBufferPool sendBufferPool = new SocketSendBufferPool();
-
+    
     NioWorker(int bossId, int id, Executor executor) {
         this.bossId = bossId;
         this.id = id;
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ class NioWorker implements Runnable {
         Selector selector;
 
         synchronized (startStopLock) {
+            
             if (!started) {
                 // Open a selector if this worker didn't start yet.
                 try {
@@ -160,6 +161,7 @@ class NioWorker implements Runnable {
             }
 
             try {
+
                 SelectorUtil.select(selector);
 
                 // 'wakenUp.compareAndSet(false, true)' is always evaluated
@@ -790,6 +792,12 @@ class NioWorker implements Runnable {
                 }
                 fireChannelConnected(channel, remoteAddress);
             }
+            
+            // Handle the channelConnected in the worker thread
+            if (channel instanceof NioAcceptedSocketChannel) {
+                fireChannelConnected(channel, channel.getRemoteAddress());
+            
+            }
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/nio/SocketSendBufferPool.java b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/nio/SocketSendBufferPool.java
index 70826d0300..d4f898ab8c 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/nio/SocketSendBufferPool.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/nio/SocketSendBufferPool.java
@@ -288,7 +288,8 @@ final class SocketSendBufferPool {
         }
 
         public void release() {
-            // Unpooled.
+            // Make sure the FileRegion resource are released otherwise it may cause a FD leak or something similar
+            file.releaseExternalResources();
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/oio/OioAcceptedSocketChannel.java b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/oio/OioAcceptedSocketChannel.java
index 0454b2f6a3..c8728df6db 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/oio/OioAcceptedSocketChannel.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/oio/OioAcceptedSocketChannel.java
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@
  */
 package org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.oio;
 
-import static org.jboss.netty.channel.Channels.*;
+import static org.jboss.netty.channel.Channels.fireChannelBound;
+import static org.jboss.netty.channel.Channels.fireChannelOpen;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
@@ -60,10 +61,9 @@ class OioAcceptedSocketChannel extends OioSocketChannel {
         } catch (IOException e) {
             throw new ChannelException("Failed to obtain an OutputStream.", e);
         }
-
+        
         fireChannelOpen(this);
         fireChannelBound(this, getLocalAddress());
-        fireChannelConnected(this, getRemoteAddress());
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/oio/OioWorker.java b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/oio/OioWorker.java
index 11ba4001d1..eaee7fbdb8 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/oio/OioWorker.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/oio/OioWorker.java
@@ -20,12 +20,15 @@ import static org.jboss.netty.channel.Channels.*;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.io.PushbackInputStream;
 import java.net.SocketException;
+import java.nio.channels.Channels;
 import java.nio.channels.ClosedChannelException;
+import java.nio.channels.WritableByteChannel;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
 import org.jboss.netty.buffer.ChannelBuffer;
 import org.jboss.netty.channel.Channel;
 import org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelFuture;
+import org.jboss.netty.channel.FileRegion;
 
 /**
  *
@@ -50,7 +53,13 @@ class OioWorker implements Runnable {
         channel.workerThread = Thread.currentThread();
         final PushbackInputStream in = channel.getInputStream();
 
+        boolean fireConnected = channel instanceof OioAcceptedSocketChannel;
+
         while (channel.isOpen()) {
+            if (fireConnected) {
+                fireConnected = false;
+                fireChannelConnected(channel, channel.getRemoteAddress());
+            }
             synchronized (channel.interestOpsLock) {
                 while (!channel.isReadable()) {
                     try {
@@ -113,13 +122,39 @@ class OioWorker implements Runnable {
         }
 
         try {
-            ChannelBuffer a = (ChannelBuffer) message;
-            int length = a.readableBytes();
-            synchronized (out) {
-                a.getBytes(a.readerIndex(), out, length);
+            int length = 0;
+
+            // Add support to write a FileRegion. This in fact will not give any performance gain but at least it not fail and 
+            // we did the best to emulate it
+            if (message instanceof FileRegion) {
+                FileRegion fr = (FileRegion) message;
+                try {
+                    synchronized (out) {
+                        WritableByteChannel  bchannel = Channels.newChannel(out);
+                        
+                        long i = 0;
+                        while ((i = fr.transferTo(bchannel, length)) > 0) {
+                            length += i;
+                            if (length >= fr.getCount()) {
+                                break;
+                            }
+                        }
+                    }
+                } finally {
+                    fr.releaseExternalResources();
+
+                }
+            } else {
+                ChannelBuffer a = (ChannelBuffer) message;
+                length = a.readableBytes();
+                synchronized (out) {
+                    a.getBytes(a.readerIndex(), out, length);
+                }
             }
+
             fireWriteComplete(channel, length);
             future.setSuccess();
+            
         } catch (Throwable t) {
             // Convert 'SocketException: Socket closed' to
             // ClosedChannelException.
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/handler/ssl/SslHandler.java b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/handler/ssl/SslHandler.java
index 940953248e..c22bded121 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/handler/ssl/SslHandler.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/handler/ssl/SslHandler.java
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ public class SslHandler extends FrameDecoder
      * @deprecated Use {@link #handshake()} instead.
      */
     @Deprecated
-    public ChannelFuture handshake(@SuppressWarnings("unused") Channel channel) {
+    public ChannelFuture handshake(Channel channel) {
         return handshake();
     }
 
@@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ public class SslHandler extends FrameDecoder
      * @deprecated Use {@link #close()} instead.
      */
     @Deprecated
-    public ChannelFuture close(@SuppressWarnings("unused") Channel channel) {
+    public ChannelFuture close(Channel channel) {
         return close();
     }
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/handler/timeout/WriteTimeoutHandler.java b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/handler/timeout/WriteTimeoutHandler.java
index 3fe62cf319..63c15f904d 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/handler/timeout/WriteTimeoutHandler.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/handler/timeout/WriteTimeoutHandler.java
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ public class WriteTimeoutHandler extends SimpleChannelDownstreamHandler
         timer.stop();
     }
 
-    protected long getTimeoutMillis(@SuppressWarnings("unused") MessageEvent e) {
+    protected long getTimeoutMillis(MessageEvent e) {
         return timeoutMillis;
     }