Board Thread:Bug Reports/@comment-27516710-20160901195709/@comment-27219153-20160927212424

Orange1861 wrote: How good are the server host computers? How good is the internet upload for the server? The CPU clock speed (biggest factor in determining processing time per entity) will vary from server to server as well as the other hardware. That being said, I think that Obsidianman's server is less powerful than the one I use because his processing time per entity was consistently 50 to 100% greater than mine. So yes, upgrading server hardware would reduce the amount of lag caused by massive amounts of mobs. However, this would be very costly and even if you got the best CPU available, I doubt it would remove all the lag. Minecraft is just not optimized to handle large amounts of entities and that is why minecraft has spawn caps. Also, upload bandwidth shouldn't affect mob spawning ever and most server facilities should have sufficient bandwidth so that upload speed would never be a problem.

In this situation, the hardware should not be considered as the problem because mobs were spawning normally in previous versions of the mod, while not causing large amounts of lag.