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Good Morning All,
I was doing some reading on Minecraft + RAM Disks and the setup seamed simple enough so I figured I was give it a try.
I made a backup of the world at 7:30 am.
Then I copied the map up into ram.
The server runs fine from there.
I have a rsync cronjob that saves a copy of the map to the spindle drive every 5 mins.

Please let me know if you notice an change in lag issues.
It should be during heavy load (Lots of users) and in Exploring.
So if there are a bunch of you on at the same time, and you want to test this.
Get together and explore new areas of the map.

That's actually pretty awesome. What size is the disk?

Just over 3 gigs by default.
The map is just over 800 megs.

So have taken this to the next level.
I had notice quite a jump in performance in certain areas.
However, there we still some lag issue in other places.

To Combat this U have moved all of minecraft into the RAM Drive.
This should nail down our I/O issues.

The next upgrade will be the use of a a VM to allow Minecraft (Which can only use 1 core) access to 4 or more cores.
More to follow on this score.

Ok so I just log on from work... I know bad me.
But, wow! the difference The map just loads, no waiting for Chunks, even moving between worlds is smooth!

I just tried it and It's super smooth for me as well. Chunk load times are much quicker.