I watched a video on how to reduce minecraft server lag. My server right now is experiencing some lag problems. Its taking a while for chunks to load and breaking blocks and placing blocks in mass number is being weird. This guy on the video made the impression that a ramdisk (on this website) http://memory.dataram.com/products-and-services/software/ramdisk Was basicly free 4gb ram. But is this a good idea? is it adding ram or taking away ram I already have and allocating it to the server. I have 8gb ram and 5gb ram allocated to my server. When I run Chrome, files, my server, and minecraft, the Performance in the task manager goes up to about 7.80GB. Is the only answer to buy more ram, or can I do this ramdisk thing and get 9GB ram to my server?
MrMan253 RAMDisk is incredibly fast. It's even faster than an SSD. Notably, you need to set up a system to back up the files from the RAMDisk, as if the computer shuts down or crashes, all of the data is lost. I personally don't know how to set up a RAMDisk (I've never needed to), but depending on your world size, you may be able to find some kind of benefit from it. Also, RAMDisk does not give you any free RAM. It uses RAM from what you have installed.
Jade I have about 20 plugins, I have a lot of worlds, and 5GB of RAM to my server. Would a RAMDisk make the small lag problem I have better?
MrMan253 - If you have a lag problem, I'd sooner nail down your issue before moving on to a RAMDisk. You're not even sure if disk read/write times are really to blame. I might move to an SSD before I'd touch a RAMDisk, especially if you don't have experience. But first, you should figure out what's causing your lag issue. Hard to fix issues if you don't even know whats causing them.
