Both the CB 1.3.1 code, and vanilla 1.3.1 code, have modified the
behavior of entity tick processing in a way that can lead to disabling
of entity cleanup. Specifically, the tickEntities() call in n.m.s.World,
which processes both the entity cleanup (removing from the world entity
list) and tile entity tick processing (furnaces and such) does not get
called by n.m.s.MinecraftServer's q() method (which drives tick
processing calls in general) when no players are on the given world.
This causes a serious memory leak when automation processes, like dynmap
mapping, load and unload chunks - as entities on unloaded chunks are
only cleaned up during entity tick processing. It also will cause issues
with any mods that use persistent chunk loading (that is, keeping chunks
loaded so that tile entities will continue being processed), since such
processing will no longer function without at least one player on the
given world.
In any case, the tickEntities() call should be called in the same
fashion as under 1.2.x (each tick, independent of player population, as
opposed to being suspended indefinitely when no players are on the given
world). The specific memory leak observed, with removing the unloaded
entites from the world, requires this call be made regularly (or, at
least, whenever the entity unload queue (world.g) is not empty.
Closes GH-832
Added newlines at the end of files
Fixed improper line endings on some files
Matched start - end comments
Added some missing comments for diffs
Fixed syntax on some spots
Minimized some diff
Removed some no longer used files
Added comment on some required files with no changes
Fixed imports of items used once
Added imports for items used more than once
We know these updates (can) break plugins bypassing Bukkit. They are needed for
smooth updates however. There will be another one right before before 1.1-R1.
