# Ignition Consume a lot of memory

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-consume-a-lot-of-memory/80747>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Tags:** ignition81\
**Created:** [October 20, 2023, 7:21am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-consume-a-lot-of-memory/80747 "2023-10-20T07:21:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rahul\_Patil](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/rahul_patil/32/53539_2.png) [@Rahul\_Patil](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Rahul_Patil)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2023, 7:21am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-consume-a-lot-of-memory/80747/1 "2023-10-20T07:21:56Z")

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Hello Everyone!

I have a sys with Win11 , 16GB Ram , Corei5 , I installed Ignition 8.1 earlier.  
Eventhough , everything is closed , and my gateway isnt running.  
The platform consumes a lot of memory..........

 ![Screenshot 2023-10-20 091439](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/7/6/76e4f78f6dc25694aa3ebd03529f3c810c774cdc.png)

Please help , as it gets really frustrating at some point

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**Author:** ![nideyijuyidong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7cd45c/32.png) [@nideyijuyidong](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nideyijuyidong)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2023, 7:33am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-consume-a-lot-of-memory/80747/2 "2023-10-20T07:33:27Z")

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Are you sure your gateway is stopped? Ignition gateway is a service ,starts when windows starts.  
And, that could be a designer?

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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:** [October 20, 2023, 12:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-consume-a-lot-of-memory/80747/3 "2023-10-20T12:28:04Z")

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> [@Rahul\_Patil](#):
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> and my gateway isnt running

Sure looks like its running.

> [@Rahul\_Patil](#):
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> The platform consumes a lot of memory.

It consumes as much as you configure it to consume, per the settings in `ignition.conf`.

Based on what I can see, it seems you have a laptop w/ 8GB of ram. That's enough to run a typical gateway, but not much else. Use a separate machine from the gateway for designer and client UIs.

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**Author:** ![Simen\_Minerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Simen\_Minerd](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Simen_Minerd)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2023, 12:43pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-consume-a-lot-of-memory/80747/4 "2023-10-20T12:43:24Z")

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I do not thing the gateway is stopped. I just tried it on my computer, when you stop the gateway, it went away.  
Ignition website has step by step to stop the gateway.

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**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-consume-a-lot-of-memory/80747/5 "2023-10-20T19:36:59Z")

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> [@Simen\_Minerd](#):
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> Ignition website has step by step of stop to the gateway.

You just have to stop the service

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**Author:** ![Simen\_Minerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Simen\_Minerd](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Simen_Minerd)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2023, 8:43pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-consume-a-lot-of-memory/80747/6 "2023-10-20T20:43:31Z")

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I just ran this "stop-ignition.bat" file, it closed everything. RAM usage went down right away.