# Multi-Core Sweet Spot For Ignition?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/multi-core-sweet-spot-for-ignition/22123>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [January 25, 2019, 4:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/multi-core-sweet-spot-for-ignition/22123 "2019-01-25T16:42:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![bart\_noble](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/bart_noble/32/7399_2.png) [@bart\_noble](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bart_noble)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 4:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/multi-core-sweet-spot-for-ignition/22123/1 "2019-01-25T16:42:43Z")

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Is there a sweet spot or ideal configuration for multi-core processing in Ignition?

For example: Does Ignition utilize more that two cores? Is anything greater than four that much better than four alone?

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/multi-core-sweet-spot-for-ignition/22123/2 "2019-01-25T16:44:14Z")

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It depends on your workload, but if it’s a bigger system it will definitely use what you give it.

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**Author:** ![bart\_noble](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/bart_noble/32/7399_2.png) [@bart\_noble](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bart_noble)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 4:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/multi-core-sweet-spot-for-ignition/22123/3 "2019-01-25T16:46:37Z")

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What do you think that threshold might be for a bigger system generally? (Or at what point does multi-threading start kicking in?)

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 4:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/multi-core-sweet-spot-for-ignition/22123/4 "2019-01-25T16:51:51Z")

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It kicks in immediately, unless your system is literally doing nothing. Ignition is highly multithreaded from the ground up.

You should never have less than 2 cores allocated and seeing as it’s 2019 I’d recommend just never having less than 4.