Hello sir(s),
Las Venturas Mineground has grown quite rapidly when it began, and it's still steadily growing, but not as fast as it was. To put things in to perspective, we have currently a 670 megabyte map, and 91 whitelisted members. That's 91 members that have applied and built things in our server. All together, we have had 173 unique visitors join LVM.
Most Minecraft servers that have similar map sizes and player counts are running with anywhere between 4 and 16 gigabytes of RAM. Along with the abundance of RAM, they also have CPU's with fast clock speeds. The reason for the faster processors versus more cores, is because Minecraft/Bukkit tend to only run in one core.
For those that aren't aware, currently LVM is running on just 1 gigabyte of RAM. When I say "just 1 gigabyte", don't take this the wrong way. I, (and not to speak for Rien), but both of us are very grateful that Management decided they would run the server on LVP's services, and even made it an official part of the community. I also understand that the Minecraft server doesn't take priority over other services that are running on the box, nor do I think it should. Anyway, as time goes on, we have been having more and more server crashes. Usually they were quite rare, maybe once every few days. This wasn't such a big deal. However, recently, the server has become much more laggy, and using much more resources. I had to reduce map backups from every half hour to once per hour, because it was causing way too much lag when they would take place. Now, it's just gotten to the point where the server can't even run for more then 10 hours without crashing. Not only is the server crashing about every 3-6 hours because it is running out of RAM, but each time it crashes, the map is rolled back by multiple hours because of the abrupt crash; the map doesn't get a chance to save. Players are loosing lots of their work, and are getting very angry (rightfully so).
For the time being, I disabled backups. This is a major problem, but it makes the server crash less often. I know that LVP doesn't have as much income as it used to, so I do understand that we are limited with what we can do. From what I know, the server currently has a total of 4 gigabytes of RAM. In short, if we can't increase the Minecraft server's ram, it won't be able to run for much longer. So, the question is, how much RAM does the server already have that could be assigned to the Minecraft server? If there isn't much left, what would be the cost to purchase more? If that information is something that Management would like to keep to themselves, I understand and respect that.
Thank You for your time, I hope something can be done soon.
Ryan Stohr
"MacSto'
Las Venturas Mineground has grown quite rapidly when it began, and it's still steadily growing, but not as fast as it was. To put things in to perspective, we have currently a 670 megabyte map, and 91 whitelisted members. That's 91 members that have applied and built things in our server. All together, we have had 173 unique visitors join LVM.
Most Minecraft servers that have similar map sizes and player counts are running with anywhere between 4 and 16 gigabytes of RAM. Along with the abundance of RAM, they also have CPU's with fast clock speeds. The reason for the faster processors versus more cores, is because Minecraft/Bukkit tend to only run in one core.
For those that aren't aware, currently LVM is running on just 1 gigabyte of RAM. When I say "just 1 gigabyte", don't take this the wrong way. I, (and not to speak for Rien), but both of us are very grateful that Management decided they would run the server on LVP's services, and even made it an official part of the community. I also understand that the Minecraft server doesn't take priority over other services that are running on the box, nor do I think it should. Anyway, as time goes on, we have been having more and more server crashes. Usually they were quite rare, maybe once every few days. This wasn't such a big deal. However, recently, the server has become much more laggy, and using much more resources. I had to reduce map backups from every half hour to once per hour, because it was causing way too much lag when they would take place. Now, it's just gotten to the point where the server can't even run for more then 10 hours without crashing. Not only is the server crashing about every 3-6 hours because it is running out of RAM, but each time it crashes, the map is rolled back by multiple hours because of the abrupt crash; the map doesn't get a chance to save. Players are loosing lots of their work, and are getting very angry (rightfully so).
For the time being, I disabled backups. This is a major problem, but it makes the server crash less often. I know that LVP doesn't have as much income as it used to, so I do understand that we are limited with what we can do. From what I know, the server currently has a total of 4 gigabytes of RAM. In short, if we can't increase the Minecraft server's ram, it won't be able to run for much longer. So, the question is, how much RAM does the server already have that could be assigned to the Minecraft server? If there isn't much left, what would be the cost to purchase more? If that information is something that Management would like to keep to themselves, I understand and respect that.
Thank You for your time, I hope something can be done soon.
Ryan Stohr
"MacSto'
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. In this case, I propose we bring the map in to the editor, and try to make it a square (as tight as we can get without deleting peoples buildings), and create world boundaries. We need to get the map size down as much as possible, so we can hopefully restore backups. I’m out of town and will be for about a week, so maybe Rien can look in to resizing the map?
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