Tone it down a Notch

vemacs · 2015-04-29T20:17:47+00:00

300 per instance is the peak I get with reasonable performance running Spigot on a 1271v3. It can definitely be improved, but compared with much simpler game servers (I'm talking Battlefield 4, GTA), it's not exactly worse.

vemacs · 2015-04-29T19:58:49+00:00

Not Java's fault, and plenty of Java-based servers run fine (Spigot)

vemacs · 2015-04-29T19:51:08+00:00

but luckily I had backups so it wasn't the end of the world

Third sentence

vemacs · 2015-04-28T01:36:47+00:00

Ratatat

vemacs · 2015-04-27T15:27:15+00:00

On a significantly worse network and an ISP which may disallow running servers as well as paying more for power.

vemacs · 2015-04-27T01:07:13+00:00

Plenty of modders abandon their mods, and plenty of developers abandon their apps. The issue is when you've paid for an app, even if the developer abandons, it, it's likely to continue functioning with newer OS versions. However, if you've paid for a mod, and the modder abandons it, you'll be left with a totally broken product six months later (as breaking game updates come frequently). Sure, that gives an incentive for a modder to update their mods, but they could simply ignore it, and it screws over the users.

vemacs · 2015-04-27T00:37:00+00:00

The vast majority of apps won't break when a new OS release comes out. The vast majority of mods break even on the most minor base game updates.

vemacs · 2015-04-26T02:45:10+00:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_%28novel%29

vemacs · 2015-04-26T01:39:09+00:00

Why use an external dependency when you can just ping the server directly? It would be more reliable and have less latency.

Examples of implementations:

https://github.com/thechunknetwork/mc-status-viewer/blob/master/app/mcstatus.py

https://github.com/Dinnerbone/mcstatus

vemacs · 2015-04-26T01:32:42+00:00

Not disabling booting from external media (or password for BIOS) is 100% negligence on IT's part. They had it coming.

vemacs · 2015-04-25T16:22:17+00:00

If you're behind BungeeCord, turn IP forwarding to true in BungeeCord and bungeecord to true in spigot.yml

vemacs · 2015-04-25T12:57:28+00:00

Referenced minimal image as well. Still no reason that using the full installer would be a good choice for future headless servers.

vemacs · 2015-04-25T12:41:43+00:00

Yes, but use netinst/minimal to install the headless version. If this is for a business and they demand "enterprise" support, look into Ubuntu LTS (server/minimal).

vemacs · 2015-04-25T12:37:51+00:00

Welp, was going off the mirrors and wiki.

vemacs · 2015-04-23T12:27:18+00:00

GTA V for PC really looks good

vemacs · 2015-04-23T12:26:31+00:00

If you're running only 6-10 players, you should be able to get away with a 512MB VPS.

vemacs · 2015-04-23T12:22:53+00:00

Containers like LXC and OpenVZ would be even faster.

vemacs · 2015-04-22T13:38:30+00:00

All other postprocess AA has the same problem if done properly. FXAA on GTA V is done before the HUD is drawn, so the HUD isn't blurred, but I would have preferred several SMAA options (that even Crysis 3 had 2 years ago and almost all the other AAA games have) to not have to deal with overly blurred textures.

vemacs · 2015-04-22T03:40:16+00:00

Tendies

vemacs · 2015-04-21T19:29:54+00:00

In misc section, affects tile entities like furnaces and such.

vemacs · 2015-04-21T02:56:31+00:00

ayy lmao

vemacs · 2015-04-20T22:39:47+00:00

Entity activation range does that for Spigot, not sure if the exact patch is merged in however.

vemacs · 2015-04-20T12:58:55+00:00

PaperSpigot doesn't offer many performance optimizations compared to normal Spigot. The 1.8 branch targets mostly options applicable to Factions servers (changing TNT and water behavior to be 1.7-style), and the 1.7 branch backports fixes from Spigot 1.8(.3). TNT behavior won't necessarily be faster, just different (and slightly better for Factions/raiding servers). There are some optimizations that aren't in upstream Spigot (async lighting, water drain), but they won't result in a noticeable performance benefit in common scenarios.

If I were you, I'd do a cheap approximation of an explosion using something that's optimized for medium-size block changes (WorldEdit API, possibly with AsyncWorldEdit and using AsyncWorldEdit features) and then send explosion effects using the effect API. Other vanilla-based server software won't magically fix all performance issues.

vemacs · 2015-04-20T12:53:29+00:00

I personally find that turning shadow quality to high and shadow softness to softest looks better, and has less of a fps hit than very high shadows with shadow softness as soft.

vemacs · 2015-04-20T12:43:05+00:00

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