# Clock Drift Issue Garbage Collection Issue Gateway Restarts Automatically **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [July 7, 2022, 1:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/clock-drift-issue-garbage-collection-issue-gateway-restarts-automatically/61629 "2022-07-07T13:28:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![lrose](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/lrose/32/62724_2.png) [@lrose](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/lrose)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2022, 1:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/clock-drift-issue-garbage-collection-issue-gateway-restarts-automatically/61629/2 "2022-07-07T13:40:23Z")
It seems you are not alone. > [@Ignition Gateway restarts Itself (v8.1.18 16GB Memory allocation)](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-gateway-restarts-itself-v8-1-18-16gb-memory-allocation/61598): > > Yesterday we concurrently updated the gateway memory allocation (8GB to 16GB) and updated the ignition software version (v8.1.17 to v 8.1.18). Today we have had a number of instances where the gateway appear to have restarted itself, preceded by ClockDriftDetector and Timeout warnings. My first thought was to look at garbage collection due to things I had read in the past but I understand that Ignition now uses the recommended G1C1 garbage collector by default. We are investigating further b… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/clock-drift-issue-garbage-collection-issue-gateway-restarts-automatically/61629)._