Server Crash 03/08/2015

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Hi Folks,

On Sunday the 8th the server suffered a fatal crash as the result of a mob spawner that somehow failed to stop spawning mobs. Usually Minecraft only allowed a certain number of mobs to spawn in an area, usually something around 70. Somehow they just kept spawning and the server quickly had over 600 mobs to keep track of and it simply keeled over and died. Since other server processes were running no alarms were triggered and I didn't catch this until today.

I've filed a bug with Mojang about this crash. Maybe they'll be able to get to the bottom of it. Otherwise I've restarted the server and I ask that until we get some resolution please don't leave the game running to allow mobs to spawn for too long.

Thanks!
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