# Control Logix Driver - overload

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/control-logix-driver-overload/101814>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** rockwell\
**Created:** [February 4, 2025, 8:27am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/control-logix-driver-overload/101814 "2025-02-04T08:27:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 12:43pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/control-logix-driver-overload/101814/4 "2025-02-04T12:43:45Z")

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A leased tag group can use zero as its idle pace, which is interpreted as to not read at all.

However, you should read some prior discussions here on optimizing AB Logix. Start with this topic:

> [@Ignition & Logix Best Practice Tips for better communications](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-logix-best-practice-tips-for-better-communications/60386):
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> Hi All, After a whole bunch of issues I have gone down the rabbit hole of what is wrong with our setup on site. I will preface this by saying I a relatively new to all of this.... so be gentle stuck_out_tongue Based on much reading(such wow) I believe I have a list of things our site could take away for a better system. Some of them are easy to implement, whilst some of them need... significant work to realize. Especially the AOI approach in point 5 expressionless Before going too far a…

Read the whole thing. As you go through it, open tabs to referenced discussions and read those too. If you can, also open tabs for the back-linked discussions (the small links under comments).

It is easy to organize a Logix PLC to yield pathological communication loads from external users.

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