Minecraft
Performance & backups
Lag is usually entities, chunks, or a bad plugin — not “need more RAM” alone.
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Quick wins
- Lower view-distance / simulation distance before throwing money at RAM.
- Cull farms and AFK mob grinders that melt the main thread.
- Profile with a maintained sampler (Spark-style) instead of guessing.
- Pre-generate maps if exploration spikes hitching on first visits.
Backups that restore
Schedule daily (or hourly for busy SMP) world + plugin-config snapshots. Test a restore once — an untested backup is a diary, not insurance. Keep at least one off-panel copy if the host offers download/export.
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