I will try that, thank you.
Currently I''m testing things in a fresh new world, and the terrible, "can't keep up", messages have stopped. I've added a couple bots, running that same program. I really wanted to resolve the performance issues with the server before I blame anyone's nice Mod. I'll give it a day or two to see how it goes, then I'll grab the current dev build and see how that goes too.
I am not an expert programmer! I'm toying around with OpenComputers to learn more and have some fun with it.
I'm running a Forge 10.13.0.1180 server with MC 1.7.10. Hosting and playing on the same Windows 7 machine. I regularly get "can't keep up" messages. I've upped the process priority, given the server 4GB of RAM, tweaked the LAN adapter for performance. I can't seem to make the lag messages stop, though I haven't yet disabled any of the addons I use to see which one might be contributing to the problem. This isn't the reason I'm posting here, but it's relevant perhaps so I'm men