I'm going to apologize before I rant on about this topic. I was in the wild hunting enraged mobs. I see an enraged creeper and pull him in a pool of water and keep my distance between hits. But every 5 seconds everything stops moving and no damage is done. This personally drives me crazy. The enraged creeper exploding made me go nuts. One of the reasons why I liked this server was because it had no lag whatsoever, but now it's been lagging constantly. Please, we have to find out the cause of the lag before myself, and everyone else go completely insane.
Part of the problem may be your internet. I would make sure your connection isn't spotty. Edit: ninjd
I too am having this problem.. Unfortunately, I hear its a Spigot Issue and something beyond the control of EMC :c
I'm having the same problem - so is everyone else on SMP7. This isn't normal for EMC; I think Aikar is working on it though.
It does seem like recently EMC has been having a lot more issues with lag and crashes than ever before. Can be pretty frustrating at times, especially on smp7.
anytime you see this please alert sr staff immediately if you see one on then we can try to debug whats causing it. ive done lots of work to try to diagnose it, and i think im close to finding it, just need to see the lag happen while one of us can run the debugger. (Currently only SMP1,7,utopia has the update though)
Yeah, if take a look here, a number of servers have been experiencing lag and other issues. http://www.spigotmc.org/forums/bugs-feature-requests.8/
Maybe you should give access to the debugger to deathconn, he always seems to be on to catch the brunt of it.