Reduce memory usage

How to optimise your Minecraft server's memory usage.

Minecraft servers can experience memory issues, and reducing memory usage can help prevent these problems and optimise server performance effectively.

We recommend using Spark to analyse performance before attempting optimisation.

Reducing chunk loading

The most common cause for memory issues is too many chunks being loaded at one time.

The easiest way to change this is by changing the view-distance value in your server.properties file. This setting will reduce the number of chunks that are loaded by your server, which will in turn reduce the amount of RAM your server is using.

Changing startup flags

You can try using Aikar's Flags to tune how the JVM does garbage collection, specifically how often a GC sweep runs, how long it's allowed to run, how old objects are allowed to be before getting garbage collected, number of cores used for GC sweeps, etc.

Removing unhelpful plugins

We recommend removing plugins, such as ClearLagg, that clear server entities. They tend to use more resources scanning and removing items than not removing the items at all.

You should also remove mob stacker plugins unless strictly required, as stacking naturally spawned entities causes more lag than not stacking them at all due to the server constantly trying to spawn more mobs.

Advanced optimisation

You can try following an optimisation guide to configure server settings and improve performance. It's important to remember that you'll need to tune this to your server's requirements.