The debugging loop for Minecraft Spigot plugins on a 4GB RAM laptop:
1. Start Eclipse - 1'
2. Edit code.
3. Build plugins - 2'
4. Close Eclipse to make RAM room for Minecraft.
5. Upload plugins to server with FTP - 1'
6. Start server and launch Minecraft - 2'
7. Enter the server.
8. Find bugs.
9. Stop the server, close Minecraft.
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That’s just horrible

just buy another 4gb stick off of somewhere...

@beggarboy I would buy it immediately... if I had money for it.

Sounds awful. Can't run the server locally?

@ScriptCoded OutOfMemory

@leduyquang753 Ah, right 😅

@Alice LOL the server eats 3GB by itself.

@Alice Try running a Minecraft server yourself and you will see why it needs that much of RAM.

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I also can't believe that the server normally eats that much RAM.
Are you sure there's no memory leak/overflow or something?
Or a Plugin that needs a fuckton of RAM?

@Skayo It has to load chunks which represent the world. With the current setting of 10-chunk view distance, there must be at least 10^2.pi = 314 chunks loaded. Also there are many entities in that world.

True story. Just happened during last weekend...
I was using my high end mechanic keyboard with broken cmd key on my 2 grand worth 8gb ddr3 MacBook Pro to testing Vagrant virtual box.
I opened 3 virtual box. I thought 2*3=6<8
But It only opened 2.
Because each uses 2 go ram. And the integrated graphics card also take 1.5 gb ram. Plus system. It runs out of memory.
Oh jeez...
🤦‍♂️

Empty server consumes a tiny bit. If you are testing on a server with 10000 player cap and 100 other plugins it is going to eat your ram. Are you sure you cant test that plugin separatly?

how about testing the plugin on a server with new map, no other plugins, and view distance set to 6 or 7?

Damn, bro u can find a 4gb ram second hand on ebay or whatever similar site in your country for less than a burger price. Unless you think that your time worth less than that...?

@devapsarl You don't live in Vietnam.

@leduyquang753 im sure u spent more time for workarounds for the lack of ur 4gb ram, than required time to find another 4gb ram. Think abt it

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