Server is crashing on 5th connection

Hi there,

i have the problem that my server is crashing on the 5th connection.

My server is a 10slot nitrado public server and the server.properties allows 10 connections.
The problem occures last week, i disabled all plguins and it went fine.
Today it occurs even without plugins.
I updated to newest recommened - worked fine.
Installed plugins (General, xWarp, Multiverse) - worked fine.

Now out of the sudden it crashes at the moment the 5th player connects with the folloing message:

Code:

2011-10-04 22:36:53 [SEVERE] java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded
2011-10-04 22:36:53 [SEVERE]     at net.minecraft.server.NBTTagByteArray.a(SourceFile:21)
2011-10-04 22:36:53 [SEVERE]     at net.minecraft.server.NBTBase.b(SourceFile:64)
2011-10-04 22:36:53 [SEVERE]     at net.minecraft.server.NBTTagCompound.a(SourceFile:24)
2011-10-04 22:36:53 [SEVERE]     at net.minecraft.server.NBTBase.b(SourceFile:64)
2011-10-04 22:36:53 [SEVERE]     at net.minecraft.server.NBTTagCompound.a(SourceFile:24)
2011-10-04 22:36:53 [SEVERE]     at net.minecraft.server.NBTBase.b(SourceFile:64)
2011-10-04 22:36:53 [SEVERE]     at net.minecraft.server.CompressedStreamTools.a(SourceFile:75)
2011-10-04 22:36:53 [INFO] Stopping server
2011-10-04 22:36:53 [INFO] [Multiverse-Core] - Disabled
2011-10-04 22:36:53 [INFO] [xWarp]: Close connection!
2011-10-04 22:36:53 [INFO] [xWarp]: xWarp 3.1.3 disabled
2011-10-04 22:36:54 [SEVERE] Exception in thread "Connection #11 read thread"
2011-10-04 22:36:56 [SEVERE] Error occurred (in the plugin loader) while disabling General v3.6.3 (Is it up to date?): GC overhead limit exceeded
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded
2011-10-04 22:36:57 [SEVERE] Exception in thread "Connection #13 read thread"
2011-10-04 22:36:57 [SEVERE] Exception in thread "Connection #5 read thread"
2011-10-04 22:36:57 [SEVERE] Exception in thread "Connection #3 r
2011-10-04 22:36:57 [SEVERE] ead thread"
2011-10-04 22:36:57 [SEVERE] java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded
2011-10-04 22:36:58 [SEVERE] java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded
2011-10-04 22:36:58 [SEVERE]     at sun.reflect.GeneratedConstructorAccessor22.newInstance(Unknown Source)
2011-10-04 22:36:58 [SEVERE]     at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
2011-10-04 22:36:58 [SEVERE]     at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:525)
2011-10-04 22:36:58 [SEVERE]     at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:372)
2011-10-04 22:36:58 [SEVERE]     at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:325)java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit e
2011-10-04 22:36:58 [SEVERE] xceeded
2011-10-04 22:36:58 [SEVERE] java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded

Ideas?

EDIT: BTW the 5th person joining is falling through the world till connection resets.

 

Your server computer doesn't have enough RAM to support 5 players. This is most likely because of the ping packet issue, you can lower this in the bukkit.yml

 

the server runs 10+ people with 1.7 but i will try lowering the ping-packet-limit.