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# Panel | Aikar's flags

# Panel v1 | Aikar's Flags 

### Before we begin, **what are Aikar's flags**? 

Aikar's flags are a set of Java Flags that enhance its native "Garbage Collector" functions. This clears out ram and allows for unused things to be rewritten to disk, or eliminated. 
||| Aikar's Flags may increase CPU Consumption

### How do I enable Aikar's Flags? 

1. Go to your server in the server list
| ![Your screen should resemble this](https://i.imgur.com/u5d9dSe.png)
2. Click Startup
| ![Click the circled place](https://i.imgur.com/1DDpoZv.png)
3. Scroll down to the "Variables" Section and Change the Tab `Aikar` from `False` to `True`.
| ![This is what it should look like afterwards](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/96b07f66ef6ab800/screen-shot-2021-09-29-at-1144_du6br8.png)

|| If it changes, but new things do not appear in your startup command (at the top of that page), please make a support ticket and we can fix this for you. :)

That's it! You're done!