After I put a mega torch down from the torchmaster mod these particle effects would keep spawning making it impossible to load the world.

These particles spawn in so much that it lags the world?!?

Yeah, when I tried to get back into my server I would get a message about not enough ram. The world seemed to be fine but I just couldn't log back into it.

I should also mention that I'm using version 3.1.0

I just re-wrote the particle tick handler so I'm really hoping that fixes this issue, because I can't think of any reason this would still occur. The new system applies particles to all entities on the server, so if the entity doesn't exist it shouldn't work...