[SOLVED] Would a Raspberry Pi 4 8gb be a sutible minecraft server?

[HydraSucks]

Hey, some of my friends and i run a home Minecraft server on a Raspberry Pi 4, 4gb. As our server has grown it has been become significantly more laggy and almost to the point where it is unplayable. This only occurs when there is 6 or more people on. Do any of you recommend buying the 8gb of ram Raspberry Pi 4 and do you think that would help?
It would be great if someone had an answer.
Thanks
H

 

[Ralston18]

Compare your Raspberry Pi 4 build to the recommended hardware specs to support a Minecraft Server.

More RAM may help a little bit.

Overall, the Raspberry Pi's capabilities are being stretched and you may not be able to do much more.

 

[kenzimarcel]

Hey, some of my friends and i run a home Minecraft server on a Raspberry Pi 4, 4gb. As our server has grown it has been become significantly more laggy and almost to the point where it is unplayable. This only occurs when there is 6 or more people on. Do any of you recommend buying the 8gb of ram Raspberry Pi 4 and do you think that would help?
It would be great if someone had an answer.
Thanks
H

see if you are running out of ram on the pi, if you arent then its probably your cpu limiting you. minecraft is largely single threaded, so i am not surprised the rpi is struggling with a few players. consider switching to paper or tacospigot or another fork that could help with performance

 

[Alabalcho]

To check what makes it "laggy":
- from shell prompt (I really believe you're not running GUI on your server), execute "top".
This will show how much memory and CPU each process takes, ordered by CPU usage. From here, make your conclusions.

 

[HydraSucks]

Compare your Raspberry Pi 4 build to the recommended hardware specs to support a Minecraft Server.

More RAM may help a little bit.

Overall, the Raspberry Pi's capabilities are being stretched and you may not be able to do much more.

Ok thanks, very helpful and much appreciated.

 

[HydraSucks]

To check what makes it "laggy":
- from shell prompt (I really believe you're not running GUI on your server), execute "top".
This will show how much memory and CPU each process takes, ordered by CPU usage. From here, make your conclusions.

Ok i will be sure to check thanks.

 

[HydraSucks]

see if you are running out of ram on the pi, if you arent then its probably your cpu limiting you. minecraft is largely single threaded, so i am not surprised the rpi is struggling with a few players. consider switching to paper or tacospigot or another fork that could help with performance

It may be the CPU i will see whether using tacospigot helps thanks.