pTweaks
Hello,
Unfortunately, I have long lost interest in Minecraft and have no plans to update this plugin any further, so I highly suggest finding a replacement. It was a good run, but I think it's time to call it quits. We appreciate all the support over the years, and are truly grateful for it. Best of luck,
Cheers.
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pTweaks is a server optimization tool. This plugin will redefine how your server loads, stores and manages chunks. pTweaks will prioritize chunk loading so the ones that need loaded get done first. When a large number of chunks are being loaded consecutively the plugin will start to unload unused chunks at a higher rate to keep performance on the server higher. pTweaks has a smart chunk loading algorithm so that chunks in a players surroundings stay loaded while under normal use so never again will you take a few steps and all the chunks start to unload behind you. pTweaks stops your server from using resources it doesn't have to use. pTweaks also adds mob handling. You are able to set limits of Monsters and Animals in each world. When things get out of hand pTweaks also offers a kill command to kill all living entities. pTweaks also offers a command to check your ram limits, performance, and allocations. pTweaks is an anti lag plugin.
Your server will be able to run longer, and smoother without the need of a restart. This being pTweaks already clears all unused data that would normally be removed with a server restart. Java dumps are already cleared and Chunks have a longer life span, meaning ram usage and CPU intensity will drop. Mob handling is now a possibility, enable or set the amount of mobs/animals spawning in your world(s) to massively drop resource usage, Limiting mobs is like turning down view distance improvement wise. Helps reduce performance therefor stopping lag.
The lifetime is how long the chunk is loaded into memory, and the prune is the cycle rate. Depending on your server size and CPU power you may want to customize these settings. Larger servers with more free ram may want to make prune higher to keep chunk loading and unloading from happening less often, while smaller servers may want to keep the default settings or make prune lower. The prune is the cycle of when all the unused chunks get unloaded. So having this higher makes more chunks stay loaded longer, while having it lower makes them unload faster. Both have benefits but generally i don't suggest editing it. SpawnChunkRadius is the static (initial) loading of chunks when a player joins your server, so the amount of chunks loaded around him, don't suggest editing this.
ChunkEdits:
ChunkEdits is a 100% customized chunk loading algorithm to enable quicker loading of chunks, and priority packets. So chunks load in a fashion better fitted for the player and the server. This algorithm isn't perfect, and currently being recoded.
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Monster Limiter:
This is a fully custom feature. You can enable or disable this in the config. Limit the amount of Mobs or Animals spawning in your world, or disable spawning all together. Change if you want spawning in one world and not the other, you can also simply use the kill command to butcher all living mobs/animals in the current or all worlds. You can see all commands by typing /pTweaks in game.
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Chunk Persistance:
This is a fully custom feature, that can be turned off in the config. This does a whole lot and is the main backbone of the plugin. Change how many chunks are loaded on player join or how long chunks stay loaded after people leave them. Makes chunks with no activity loaded at certain intervals to save tons of CPU power. The clear cycle is changed to make less disc writing. Chunks with lots of visitors will stay loaded longer, and not have to render again and again. This adding lots of performance to your server.
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Ram Check:
Check the amount of ram being used, the free ram, and currently loaded ram. This gives you the ability to check server performance and debug bad plugins by seeing which are taking up the most resources by adding one and testing, adding another and using the command again. This command will soon also have TPS and other performance tracking abilities.
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Packet Auto Save:
Instead of writing every chunk to the disc every 2 seconds. This changes it to a custom time that you want, Default is 50ms This saves the server from writing about 14KBps to the disc (10 writes, 3 reads per chunk, on a 3 person server). As well as saves about 2 calls to deflate every 2 seconds. (per chunk)
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TNT Edit: (Suggested)
Basically all this does is after the first explosion, shadows the rest of them by duplicating the same explosion so the effects of say 500 TNT are the same as the effects of a single tnt block going off. This is not bullet proof, and it will still be possible to cause server lag by making the server render too many packets, but this is not possible unless doing thousands of blocks with a plugin like WorldEdit.
- Download pTweaks
- Stop your server
- Put pTweaks.jar in your Plugins directory
- Start Your Server
- Edit Config's to your liking or leave default
- Reload
- Done!
/pTweaks
Permission: pTweaks.pTweaks
This command will bring up most ingame settings, and information. You can also enable or disable mob spawning from ingame.
/ram
Permission: pTweaks.ram
This will show current ram usable, and information
VIDEOS:
Thanks too @Torrent for the video
Thanks too @BrandonHopkins for the video
Lag Test 3,000 TNT / With and Without pTweaks (356MB server)
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@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
You can edit the class file with the ce programm and change all v1_5_R3 to v_1_6_R1 than ptweaks works fine for me
I hope an update is available within the next 12 hours!
Any chance to update this to 1.6.1 ?
We are aware of the 1.6 update and that this plugin will break!
As soon as CraftBukkit is ready for 1.6 we will work on an update for you guys!
@MrInspector
I dont know what you are talking about. The pages arent even similar nor is plugin features.
my opinion are it better then noLagg or clearLag so well that my opinion.
@mrchasez
Something that spigot has recently added has made this plugin not work so well and actually cause more lag... I'm getting things like 20,000ms of lag or a full out server kick. When I take off the plugin it works fine but I get higher RAM usage :( Anyway try look into what they recently put in the last 15-25 builds of spigot to make your plugin more compatible with it.
yeah! I get the same 10 to 30 second lag with spigot too. ha! so I'm not the only one. Can't wait for 1.6 version of minecraft......
@zRA1Nz
Should be compatible with spigot. I have heard good things about using them together, but not entirely sure.
I heard that there is a lot of compatibility issues with this plugin and spigot. The only one I had was 10-30 minute lag sessions. Could you add something like a config setting to run Ptweaks in a spigot compatible mode? The actual owner of spigot told me not to use this plugin but I like some of the features and to me seems to bring down some of the motion lag when I have more than 130 players on.
This error came:
2013-05-11 21:35:54 [WARNING] [PTweaks] Task #3661943 for PTweaks v6.0.5 generated an exception java.lang.NullPointerException at me.devplugin.ptweaks.ChunkPersistance$1.run(ChunkPersistance.java:138) at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_5_R3.scheduler.CraftTask.run(CraftTask.java:53) at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_5_R3.scheduler.CraftScheduler.mainThreadHeartbeat(CraftScheduler.java:345) at net.minecraft.server.v1_5_R3.MinecraftServer.r(MinecraftServer.java:513) at net.minecraft.server.v1_5_R3.DedicatedServer.r(DedicatedServer.java:226) at net.minecraft.server.v1_5_R3.MinecraftServer.q(MinecraftServer.java:477) at net.minecraft.server.v1_5_R3.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:410) at net.minecraft.server.v1_5_R3.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:573)
@codewow
The notification system of BukkitDev seems broken...
Anyway, I'm unavailable until tomorrow, will have a look at it then.
Could it be a spawn chunk? Since spawn chunks are kept alive all the time.
No response? Does anyone know? Chunks don't seem to unload at all.
@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
I have no Idea its just started spamming the server and I wasn't on :/
Chunks don't seem to unload ever on 1.5.2 using 1.5.2 R1. I set chunk persistence really low, but they haven't unloaded in 24 hours. Even with no one playing for a few hours either.
@EpicTrance
Can you tell us how the error occurred?
Would be a lot easier with a short information on how to produce this error :)
Whats about that error?
@EpicTrance
Don't do that. It spams the page and makes it harder to read. Use pastie or pastebin. Here: http://pastie.org/7810382
I deleted your comment.
WOOW, this looks better than NoLagg
I went from 2 TPS to 20 TPS, love this plugin so much!