Can excessive lava flow cause crash?

tonibm19 · (This post was last modified: 04-03-2013, 05:22 PM by tonibm19.)

(04-03-2013, 05:17 PM)xoft Wrote: Yes. Lava and water use memory, not much, but it can accumulate. I doubt it would cause a server to run out of memory, though, a person is just not capable of that. When chunks generate, they have much more water and lava than a person can possibly place, and the server survives that.

Before the crash, there were many "WARNING: cTracer: Start and end in same block" error messages.
Is there any way to disable lava?