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Initially the entire minecraft homedir and world were hosted on a ramdrive (a portion of the RAM sectioned off, emulating a hard drive) which allowed blistering read speeds - however, as simultaneous player numbers rose to an average of 60, memory proved to once more be the limiting factor ...