# Quantifiable java performance difference between windows and linux?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/quantifiable-java-performance-difference-between-windows-and-linux/55089>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [January 17, 2022, 9:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/quantifiable-java-performance-difference-between-windows-and-linux/55089 "2022-01-17T21:04:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Richard\_Shaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Richard\_Shaw](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Richard_Shaw)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2022, 9:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/quantifiable-java-performance-difference-between-windows-and-linux/55089/1 "2022-01-17T21:04:47Z")

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Searching google there seems to be an overall assessment that java performs better on Linux than Windows. I choose to run Ignition on Linux because one, I’m comfortable with it, and two, I can run Linux headless with much lower baseline memory consumption.

Has anyone tried to objectively test Ignition performance of Linux vs Windows?

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2022, 5:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/quantifiable-java-performance-difference-between-windows-and-linux/55089/2 "2022-01-18T17:40:14Z")

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Not to my knowledge. There’s so much noise that I think it would be hard to get a true apples to apples comparison.  
For a large number of reasons, I generally agree with the decision to host production gateways on Linux systems, but in practice it’s usually cheaper to buy a more powerful server than retrain whoever is going to be managing your gateway.

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Shaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Richard\_Shaw](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Richard_Shaw)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2022, 5:58pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/quantifiable-java-performance-difference-between-windows-and-linux/55089/3 "2022-01-18T17:58:55Z")

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Thanks for the data point at least!

In my case, I would be the manager/admin of the gateway so no issues there.