Hi, I've been hosting a few modded servers in the last month on a headless machine.
Jumping straight into the problem, for some reason ALL games i've hosted ended up having the same error:
Overloading every exactly 19 minutes and 30 seconds.
I've tried different modpacks, i've tried running the entire server on a RamDisk (whopping 6+8GB of ram used to host the entire thing there, had to lower backups), i've tried completely emptying the whole computer of bloatware and even resetting it back to factory settings.
But every 19.30 minutes the whole server lags, everyone disconnects and it's ruining the experience for both me and my friends.
The server has enough allocated ram (around 10GB total, keeping 6GB free), no processes run at the same time, the game works smooth as butter and the internet pumps half a gb of speed in download and way more than enough in upload.
I have found only two things that seem to happen at uneven timings:
1) Sometimes the CMD freezes- pressing any button makes it work again, but i can visibly see the CPU not work when it does, implying the server blocks when it happens.
This seems to happen randomly, 90% of the times only during the startup.
2) The 19.30 timings seems to sometimes oscillate: Sometimes it doesn't overload for almost 4 hours, other (and in more rare cases) every 29.5 seconds, making the game unplayable. Re-installing all the server files seem to temporarily fix it, but after 4 different modpacks from different creators with different files and systems i highly doubt it's the modpack's fault- mostly since the current one is hosted more than fine on my other personal machine.
During the freezes the server doesn't crash, but all players of course forcingly disconnect.
Hello I can help you with your problem and offer you an optimization is really common to have these problems on servers with mods add me on discord L33T#3319
The fact that it happens with other games means it isn't a Minecraft thing but it's an issue with the PC itself.
My first thoughts are maybe something else is running that is taking up resources, or maybe the network adapter is periodically losing connection, but the timing is almost too consistent. If this is running Windows, I'd first look in Event Viewer and see if any logs are being created that consistently correspond with the timing of this. If so, that might get you started in the right direction.
You might have better luck in a community specializing in hardware or software for this though.
Error of mine: With "Games" i meant all servers I ever hosted of Minecraft. I called them Games since it was often either maps or modpacks me and friends used to play.
Oh, then maybe it's Minecraft. In either case I'm not sure, but if this happens regardless of Minecraft version and regardless of environment (vanilla or modded, etc.) then it might help narrow it down.
Does it happen in vanilla, and in much older versions?
I probably won't be able to help much further than this since mod packs and the like aren't something I'm familiar with. My initial involvement was to try and help point you in the direction of it maybe being a broader issue with the PC and not a Minecraft issue since I misunderstood you saying all games did the same thing.
Reinstalling the entire forge doesn't seem to fix it, but it seems like the problem is present inside of the files- either the libraries or the configs must have something that causes this error.
Hi, I've been hosting a few modded servers in the last month on a headless machine.
Jumping straight into the problem, for some reason ALL games i've hosted ended up having the same error:
I've tried different modpacks, i've tried running the entire server on a RamDisk (whopping 6+8GB of ram used to host the entire thing there, had to lower backups), i've tried completely emptying the whole computer of bloatware and even resetting it back to factory settings.
But every 19.30 minutes the whole server lags, everyone disconnects and it's ruining the experience for both me and my friends.
The server has enough allocated ram (around 10GB total, keeping 6GB free), no processes run at the same time, the game works smooth as butter and the internet pumps half a gb of speed in download and way more than enough in upload.
I have found only two things that seem to happen at uneven timings:
1) Sometimes the CMD freezes- pressing any button makes it work again, but i can visibly see the CPU not work when it does, implying the server blocks when it happens.
This seems to happen randomly, 90% of the times only during the startup.
2) The 19.30 timings seems to sometimes oscillate: Sometimes it doesn't overload for almost 4 hours, other (and in more rare cases) every 29.5 seconds, making the game unplayable. Re-installing all the server files seem to temporarily fix it, but after 4 different modpacks from different creators with different files and systems i highly doubt it's the modpack's fault- mostly since the current one is hosted more than fine on my other personal machine.
During the freezes the server doesn't crash, but all players of course forcingly disconnect.
Does anyone have any idea on what it could be?
Hello I can help you with your problem and offer you an optimization is really common to have these problems on servers with mods add me on discord L33T#3319
The fact that it happens with other games means it isn't a Minecraft thing but it's an issue with the PC itself.
My first thoughts are maybe something else is running that is taking up resources, or maybe the network adapter is periodically losing connection, but the timing is almost too consistent. If this is running Windows, I'd first look in Event Viewer and see if any logs are being created that consistently correspond with the timing of this. If so, that might get you started in the right direction.
You might have better luck in a community specializing in hardware or software for this though.
Error of mine: With "Games" i meant all servers I ever hosted of Minecraft. I called them Games since it was often either maps or modpacks me and friends used to play.
Oh, then maybe it's Minecraft. In either case I'm not sure, but if this happens regardless of Minecraft version and regardless of environment (vanilla or modded, etc.) then it might help narrow it down.
The situation seems to happen with multiple versions of the game (Tested both 1.18.2 and 1.20.1) with different modpacks
Does it happen in vanilla, and in much older versions?
I probably won't be able to help much further than this since mod packs and the like aren't something I'm familiar with. My initial involvement was to try and help point you in the direction of it maybe being a broader issue with the PC and not a Minecraft issue since I misunderstood you saying all games did the same thing.
Another info:
The averate tick timer seems to slooowly increase until the game is no longer able to handle it and overloads.
Bump- Problem still seems to be present.
Reinstalling the entire forge doesn't seem to fix it, but it seems like the problem is present inside of the files- either the libraries or the configs must have something that causes this error.