Water not flowing while players are offline

[Devilwasbad]

On my server that I host water does not flow while players are offline and that is quite a problem givin that if the water stops flowing we have item buildup and eventual server lagg so bad that I have to MC edit the dropped items out if anyone knows how to correct this it would be very nice to know. Image to what it looks like below if thats any help

[xardas]

As far as i'm aware, nothing loads if nobody is online. Quarries don't move unless your near them and logged in. I think EE array's are different, correct me if i'm wrong but I believe they will continue to generate EMC whilst 'someone' is online... no distance required.

We had a similar occurance on our server. Our issue was that when I logged in, it would only load half another players base, evidently half of their pipes so blocks would flow from the quarry and stop half way due to only certain chunks loading. and fall to the floor, causing massive amounts of lag, had to turn on creative and spend 20minutes in a chronosphere diving for the pipe buildup, hear a big CLUP! noise and lag would reduce.

[Devilwasbad]

I was under the impression that chunk loaders would work the way its name implys.