Server won't start because its "too big"....?

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    Hi. I've posted on he support ticket system twice with no response, so I'll give it a try here.
    I came to start my server on the 14th of april, just to find it wouldn't start because it was over the posted 4GB limit (was at 4.04). I tried removing a few unecessary files, but this was to no effect. I then also went into the backups to find something very odd. On that same day, at 12pm, there was an auto backup of about 626MB, then somehow, 4 hours later, there was another backup, that was, 3.68GB??
    Please explain to me how this is even possible as I am very confused with the situation.


    Thank you for any help given.

    How am I supposed to determine what/where the 'unnecessary' chunks are? I have an ever expanding world sprawling out and I don't intend to loose any potential build space.

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    Quote from Chazi898

    Hi. I've posted on he support ticket system twice with no response, so I'll give it a try here.

    It may take a bit of time until someone responds, just be patient.

    Quote from SMASHERYT

    You could download your world delete unnessecary chunks with mcedit then upload world

    Or wait Roman to get here

    It is very rare that a world has a size of several GigaByte.

    In addition, he wrote that his server was much smaller shortly before. It is almost impossible to generate world data in a few hours if you just play normally.


    In most cases you reach the general memory limit of 4GB (which does not refer to the world but to the whole server) when plugins/mods create unnecessary data or you simply exaggerate it.


    Frequent culprits are e.g. plugins which create backups. They create backups of the server at places where they can neither be seen nor played back by our users.

    For backups in general we recommend the use of our backup system.


    In this specific case, mass backups were also created by the mod "ForgeEssentials" which pushes the amount of data up to the limit. I have deleted them now. So that the same doesn't happen again tomorrow you should deactivate the backup function of this mod in its config file.


    Your server should start again now. (I also closed your tickets on our support center)

    Thank you for that Roman. I actually already removed Forge Essentials because i didn't trust what it was doing to the saves I was returning to, I actually lost a small build after building then saving it, so after that I generally didn't like the way it operated so got rid of it. Also thanks for informing me that such plugins or mods could actually do that, I had no idea.

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