# Can someone post the benchmark whitepaper?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/can-someone-post-the-benchmark-whitepaper/2293>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [October 22, 2010, 7:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/can-someone-post-the-benchmark-whitepaper/2293 "2010-10-22T19:47:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![diat150](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a587f6/32.png) [@diat150](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/diat150)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 7:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/can-someone-post-the-benchmark-whitepaper/2293/1 "2010-10-22T19:47:16Z")

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the link to it on the blog now points to a webpage. I wanted to show the results to a customer.

[blog.inductiveautomation.com/sea … Whitepaper](http://blog.inductiveautomation.com/search/label/Whitepaper)

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**Author:** ![Travis.Cox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Travis.Cox](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Travis.Cox)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 8:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/can-someone-post-the-benchmark-whitepaper/2293/2 "2010-10-22T20:22:39Z")

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Here it is

[IABenchmarkWhitepaper2008.pdf](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/uploads/short-url/q4cZlkkEKqourQhsOOXCOS1LIMD.pdf) (536.6 KB)

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**Author:** ![diat150](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a587f6/32.png) [@diat150](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/diat150)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 10:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/can-someone-post-the-benchmark-whitepaper/2293/3 "2010-10-22T22:46:50Z")

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thanks.

just to expand a little on this particular project:

we are looking at approximately 2500 devices, with approximately 125k tags total. update time should only be about 2-3 times per hour max. it seems to me that with a high level server this should be no problem for ignition.

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**Author:** ![Carl.Gould](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/carl.gould/32/7262_2.png) [@Carl.Gould](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Carl.Gould)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 8:43pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/can-someone-post-the-benchmark-whitepaper/2293/4 "2010-11-04T20:43:14Z")

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I’m going to be honest - 2,500 devices is a much larger number than we’ve ever tested (~100).

Off the top of my head the most obvious issue is gong to be the number of threads this forces the Gateway to use. You’re going to want to use a 64-bit JVM so you can up the max memory, and decrease the per-thread stack size memory with the -Xss flag.

More “large-system” testing and benchmarking is something we’re working on.