Guide · Beginner · 8 min
Server performance basics
What makes a Minecraft server lag and what to do about each cause, in order of likelihood.
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Inside this guide
- Lag on a Minecraft server has a short list of usual causes. This guide walks through them from most to least likely, with what to check and what to change, so you fix the real cause instead of buying RAM.
- Plugins doing work every tick
- Entities and redstone
- View distance and chunk loading
- Memory and host
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