might be an foolish help atempt (second time this night)
try to reboot the server (save all) then restart
just type
Stop
then reboot the server (and your computer while youre at it)
solves 50% of the problems right away is what i understood from some server owners.
minecraft leak by its own, reboot every 12 hours (also it's smart to backup map on every reboot)
Yeah that is what I have to do I was just hoping there was a solution that didn't involve a restart every few days since I work in the oil industry I tend to be gone for 3 weeks at a time and do enjoy logging on to my server as well as for my friends to log on there isn't anyone to perform maintenance
Configure a bot to do that for you automatically, someone here should have knowledge of how to do it.
McMyAdmin or Multicraft, or if you're running Linux you can manually restart the server every 12 hours or so with a pair of scripts.
More importantly, what version were you running? I have had a server with 24/7 uptime for the last few months, going all the way back to 1.71. They all leak over time, but maybe half a gig at most (the server has 4GB so that may have something to do with it). Maybe garbage collection is relaxed with massively expanded max memory for java?
Rumors say adding -Xincgc to the java command line will prevent leaking. Rumors.
Rumors say adding -Xincgc to the java command line will prevent leaking. Rumors.
You want to use the incremental Garbagecollector of Java? Sometimes it causes problems on a few Unix-derivates, just for information. Oh and these Rumors are true.
Does it actually cause any issues? In my experience Java just noms up the RAM until the OS starts running out then it stops (and actually clears up after itself) and runs as normal. For some reason the JVM only frees up RAM when it is actually running low on RAM.
Try using a Virtual Box container and limiting it to say 4GBs.
Does it actually cause any issues? In my experience Java just noms up the RAM until the OS starts running out then it stops (and actually clears up after itself) and runs as normal. For some reason the JVM only frees up RAM when it is actually running low on RAM.
Try using a Virtual Box container and limiting it to say 4GBs.
The incremental Garbagecollector causes issues to some Linuxusers, with Windows it's working flawlessly.
@echo off
java.exe -Xincgc -Xmx1024M -jar craftbukkit.jar
pauseWorks great for bad laptops that try to run Bukkit servers! I'm running one right now and there's no lag at all! You can change the memory if you need too! Hope I helped! =D
as to stopping minecraft with a script in a *nix environment, this should do:
sudo -u <username> screen -x minecraft -X stuff "`printf "stop\r"`"
the sudo is there as cron jobs generally don't run as the intended user.
requires you start minecraft like this though:
screen -S minecraft ./launch_serverlaunch_server is just my little bash one liner that starts the server up with the appropriate parameters.