Has anyone else had an issue where if they put 3-4 industrial grinders in a close proximity and run them it becomes hard to interact with anything and you have lots of other server issues? I have checked my charts and it doesn't seem like we are maxing out the server and we have 4 people on a 60 person server.

It's a server FPS issue, which is a WildCard thing sadly. Each grinder generates an exp increase entry for each person in the tribe, and then has to calculate whether or not that tribe member is nearby. It then also has to calculate whether or not those tribe members are mounted, or not, and if they're the person who started / queued the craft.

The reason why you don't see any CPU issues is because you're not running into a CPU or RAM problem, you're running into an actual ARK coding issue.

4 grinders, attempting to update the server 30 times per second, running asynchronously, within close proximity of each other, it just causes FPS lag for the server itself.

Especially if you've done something daft, like speed up the crafting speed.

Thank you for the quick response! We figured it was an ark issue after checking server stats, but I figured I would ask in here.