By kylebshr
I’ve set up a droplet with 4GB of ram, but when I try to start a minecraft server with 3GB, it says there’s not enough memory. I have no other processes running. Any ideas? Thanks!
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java -Xms512M -Xmx3G -jar minecraft_server.jar nogui <br> <br>This should work… <br>The -Xms is the initial memory and the Xmx is the maximum memory. the server will allocate the 512 Mb of memory when you start it and then whenever it needs more it will automatically allocate it up to a maximum of 3Gb.
No, I would assume that the server or java doesn’t like reserving more than X amount of ram for a process though.
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