# Is this gateway memory usage typical?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/is-this-gateway-memory-usage-typical/106339>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [May 16, 2025, 4:30pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/is-this-gateway-memory-usage-typical/106339 "2025-05-16T16:30:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Roman\_Rozenshteyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/838e76/32.png) [@Roman\_Rozenshteyn](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Roman_Rozenshteyn)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2025, 4:30pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/is-this-gateway-memory-usage-typical/106339/1 "2025-05-16T16:30:00Z")

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I was just looking at my gateway performance statistics and noticed that the memory usage has this oscillating behavior. Is this normal?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/c/9/c94e5276aa614054c367bb53cf93531199c52e36.png)

-thanks

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**Author:** ![ryan.white](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/ryan.white/32/73193_2.png) [@ryan.white](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ryan.white)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2025, 4:35pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/is-this-gateway-memory-usage-typical/106339/2 "2025-05-16T16:35:32Z")

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That is expected.

> [@Zulu process consuming too much CPU](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/zulu-process-consuming-too-much-cpu/90087/3):
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> A "healthy" quantity of RAM for Ignition yields a sawtooth pattern on the gateway's memory trend (gateway status =\> Performance) where the regular drop-offs end up somewhat below 50% and the GC event at each peak, typically around 90%, doesn't create a "Clock Drift" warning.

You have such a small amount of ram currently that you should be fine regardless.