# 8.1 RC download size?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/8-1-rc-download-size/38941>\
**Category:** Ignition Early Access\
**Created:** [September 22, 2020, 4:26pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/8-1-rc-download-size/38941 "2020-09-22T16:26:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![jpark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e57/32.png) [@jpark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jpark)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 4:26pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/8-1-rc-download-size/38941/1 "2020-09-22T16:26:41Z")

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Noticed the downloads are now 1.5 gb instead of the usual sub 1gb.

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**Author:** ![mazeyrat](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/mazeyrat/32/10955_2.png) [@mazeyrat](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mazeyrat)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 4:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/8-1-rc-download-size/38941/2 "2020-09-22T16:31:34Z")

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it must be related to the **perspective workstation** flavour for win/linux/mac

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**Author:** ![kgamble](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kgamble/32/8019_2.png) [@kgamble](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kgamble)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 4:32pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/8-1-rc-download-size/38941/3 "2020-09-22T16:32:09Z")

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Probably to include the necessary packages for the perspective workstation client launcher

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 4:32pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/8-1-rc-download-size/38941/4 "2020-09-22T16:32:30Z")

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Yes, it’s Workstation + other minor things:

```auto
kevin@Kevins-MacBook-Pro ~/D/Ignition-osx-8.1.0-rc1> du -h lib
775M	lib/core/launch
 74M	lib/core/common
 17M	lib/core/designer
 24M	lib/core/client
 81M	lib/core/gateway
972M	lib/core
123M	lib/runtime
217M	lib/opt/jxbrowser
217M	lib/opt
1.3G	lib

```

`lib/core/launch` is a fatty at 775MB, containing all the various launchers.

I imagine it will grow again when we have to support MacOS/ARM, and perhaps again if we get a runtime together that can do launchers on Linux/ARM

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/8-1-rc-download-size/38941/5 "2020-09-22T18:13:19Z")

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Maybe time to break it up? With all the platform-independent modules and libraries in a common zip download? (That the executable installers know how to download if not present alongside, perhaps.)

Maybe along with breaking modules into their own releases… (: