Odd. I could see your messages when you said them on the server, but they didn't appear in game for /ages/. That would suggest the PC running the server was slowing up, but the server was only using 400 meg of RAM and CPU usage never went over about 60%.

 

My router looks like it might have been going a bit crazy, though. Showing only 2% of RAM available :S

And yeah, my router doesn't respond to external pings.

Someone please come help me with this spider :'S

There is one difference: the number of players.

(uh... and the number of bugs)

I suppose so.

Yeah, seems to be fine until there's 3> people there then the lag goes crazy :(

THink it could be my router... or my PC. Or the fact that this is all done in fucking Java :@

 

Router says:
Load Average
17%
0.23, 0.17, 0.10

 

Might give it a reboot just for the hell of it.

The number of players involves many subsequent differences, many of a social nature.

For example if I am collaborating with someone on building something very far away from spawn and I stupidly fall off and have to walk all the way back there from the spawn point, I am not only inconveniencing myself but them as well.

I think teleport is a reasonably compromise. It only allows you to teleport to another player. It's also nice for going round having a look at what people are doing.

Yeah the java thing really doesn't help.

I saw a pick on the floor, spent ages trying to pick it up then Drew ran past and whisked it away!

and I suspect Kos pushed me in a hole!

..and teleporting you out of your fucking hole you got stuck it :D

Haha, I dug the block out you were standing on, but there was a big hole underneat :D

 

I came down with a flower for you tos ay sorry though :(

I fell down a hole and was amazed to still be alive. So I explored a bit and roughly 3 minutes later everything caught up and the fall killed me :'D

When you say "the server" was only using 400 meg, that's very vague. As I said to someone before, Java memory stuff isn't as straightforward as that. :(

Did you launch the gave with any min/max memory settings? (Possibly it defaults to 512MB max, so when it gets to 400MB it starts trying to do garbage collection, but can't do it quickly enough, and thus everything slows down).

If not, try launching it with this:

java -Xmx1G -Xms1G -jar minecraft_server.jar

Which is giving it a maximum amount of 1GB and telling it to go ahead and allocate the whole 1GB.

Why is Java so popular, anyway? We use a Java-based support desk application here, and it's a big ol' pile of shite. And just about anything else that uses it seems to attract more than its fair share of hatred. And it needs updating at least once a fortnight.

 

Why do people use it? Why, Drew, why?

DO IT KOS DO IT!

1. Because Java is relatively easy to code and relatively portable.
2. Because many people who did programming-type degrees back in the day learned Java.
3. Because Java is, in theory, absolutely lovely. It's merely the practise where it falls down.

1. So?
2. Wankers.
3. I've got a car like that.

I gave it 2GB of ram to play with, and the Java process was using 400, the thing in the server status a bit less than that.

1. Aye.
2. Aye.
3. :D