SMP Spawn Rates

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What I expected to happen was...:
Playing SMP on Hard difficulty

What actually happened was...:
Mobs spawn at a very low rate if not at all, walking around at night is effortless. I thought it was just snapshots at first. I am running through a dedicated server but have gone over settings multiple times to try and solve.

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