If it's not yet fixed itself, try making a new world and see if that runs any better.

seemed to take a while for it to all settle, had 3-4 goes at 'dropping into place' but then it was working well - untill his brother asked to borow the laptop and jake left

do you think it could be too much data?
someone walked MILES towards the south-west

Nah, I mean that will have some impact but it wouldn't just ramp up like this. It should technically have no/negligible impact because the server is only sending the clients the blocks around them, regardless of where those blocks happen to be. Generating that terrain in the first place will use a lot of CPU etc., but in a way exploring the map prevents that happening so much - it'd be happening all the time on a new map.

I'm just thinking the files got corrupted during the move or something. Or maybe they're just really fragmented (although again that shouldn't ramp up this quick either). It's unlikely but if everything else on the PC is running fine then those files become suspect.

Did you try single player on that same PC kos? If that's fine then maybe shut the server off and point single player at the multiplayer world - rule out problems with the files.

Does this seem more like a file thing or a networking thing?

Just to add another report - very slow here too, not loading all of the blocks ( I fell out of my cave :C )

I can't even connect to it now, have you taken it down?

Timing out here.

I can get on fine, and it's great! There's unicorns and kittens and giant stompy robots and custard. I'm not sure why there's custard. You should all play!

 

Actually, not really. I can't get on either. I assume Kos is trying things out.

Make me some custard please.

Either that or he's finally been taken out by his own windows.

Nope.

Right, had a fiddle.

 

Can some people try it while I brave the gales and nip round to the chinese take away?

Yeah. Still slow, unfortunately.

What a ball ache. And my Singapore noodles aren't ready yet.

it's almost like it's being backed up, /all the time/

I dig a block, it comes back, I dig it again, after maybe 3 or 4 goes it stays gone

picking up the resulting small block takes maybe 10 - 20 seconds

Same for me, takes ages to connect then blocks take a good 20 seconds to appear (as pickupable) after I mine them.

Which, maybe interestingly, was how it was when you very first started hosting a server.

Yeah, that got me thiknking and was the basis of the fiddles I did before I went out.

 

:(

It's odd is this.

Any clue whether it's a cpu/ram thing or a network thing?

I think it's one of the following:

 

Network (i've updated all drivers, checked cables, rebooted router etc.)

 

Hard drive (i've updated drivers, defragged, turned off real time scanning in AV etc.)

 

A creeper in the code has blown up.

 

 

 

I'm going to launch a new world and see what happens.

(hug)

In case it's not obvious: I really appreciate the effort you're putting into all this. It's a wicked server and I've had a lot of fun on there. Thank you.