Minecraft server getting killed on 2GB RAM droplet

November 10, 2013 7.7k views
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I have a droplet with the 2GB ram configuration. I installed a Vanilla Minecraft server, I hopped on (just me on it), and the server crashes after 30 seconds. There is no crash log, except for "Killed". This is the command I use to start the server on the screen: java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar mcserver.jar nogui This is the standard 1.7.2 Minecraft. Anybody knows what's going on?
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kamaln7 MOD November 10, 2013
Try adding just a little bit of swap so that minecraft doesn't crash while not affecting your system's performance:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-add-swap-on-ubuntu-12-04

Replace count=512k with count=128k.
How To Add Swap on Ubuntu 12.04
by Etel Sverdlov
Linux swaps allow a system to harness more memory than was originally physically available. Here's how to set up a linux swap file on Ubuntu 12.04
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gagnon.pierluc March 21, 2014
I have the same exact issue...
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gagnon.pierluc March 21, 2014
Forgot to mention that I have plenty of swap space available... Other than high CPU usage, RAM is fine and swap usage is barely nonexistent. I think DigitalOcean is killing it because it's using too much CPU
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r.d.harnasch April 1, 2014
@gagnon, how much swap space did you allocate? I'm going through the same issue right now and I'm curious what we've all been trying that doesn't work.
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