Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-8096862-20130428014057/@comment-8614413-20130428134030

Dj rendier wrote: does this create more strain on a server then a quarry? because someone is building one of these (not the same design), and I'm worried about lagg caused by hundreds of blocks being broken at once. I made a little test on my server

I have 2 15x30 frame quarries when they're on it uses about 5-8% cpu(core i7 930@3.8Ghz) and 1.4 GB Ram. When I turn them off I use 950 MB ram and cpu is around 4-6%

Note, I added some additional ender chests so that fewer items were in tubes, without that upgrade CPU usage was about 12%.

So it seems that the main source of strain are the items in the tubes.

Breaking blocks shouldn't be the problem.