Running Bedrock Dedicated Server on Raspberry PI 4 or 5 - lag & high connection times & failures

[zmoky]

Tried to run the bedrock server on both pi 4 & 5 ( 8GB RAM ).
I could say that only with one player the latency is high, and the connection to the server is taking a long time. This does not seem to be usable. Am I wrong ? Am I missing some kind of tweak / configuration option ?

services: app: image: itzg/minecraft-bedrock-server restart: always volumes: - ./data:/data ports: - "19132:19132/udp" environment: GAMEMODE: survival SERVER_NAME: "PI Server" LEVEL_NAME: "PI Level" OPS: "xxxx" ENABLE_COMMAND_BLOCK: true ALLOW_CHEATS: false EULA: TRUE DIFICULTY: easy ONLINE_MODE: true LEVEL_SEED: "1830573857" TICK_DISTANCE: 4 VIEW_DISTANCE: 20

[itzg]

Two things to keep in mind:

• Mojang is only supplying an x86 executable. So when you're running the image on Raspberry Pi it's actually using an emulator to run it on the ARM chip. So that's a major cause for performance degradation
• Disk I/O might also be an issue. The mounted directory (relative to compose file) should be coming from an attached SSD via USB. If that directory is located on the usual SD card, then disk I/O performance will not be sufficient

[zmoky]

In the meantime I got to the box64 emulation part, so I suppose that this is the biggest issue when it comes to performance:lag issues.
Disk IO is not the issue because all the PI that I have are on SSD's.

The conclusion is that running BDS on PI is just for demonstration purposes, and definitely not for production :) .

I will setup an x86 low powered pc for this.