# Server for Designers PC

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/server-for-designers-pc/12077>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [August 29, 2016, 12:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/server-for-designers-pc/12077 "2016-08-29T12:59:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![PK1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9dc877/32.png) [@PK1](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/PK1)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2016, 12:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/server-for-designers-pc/12077/1 "2016-08-29T12:59:37Z")

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We are a team of 5 people working on an ignition project. We have setup one computer as a server and other 4 workstations access that server for development purpose. We are working on our local gateway here. Following is the configuration of the server computer

Dell Optiplex 3020  
Intel® Core™ i5 - 4570 CPU @ 3.20GHz  
16.0 GB RAM  
64-bit operating system x64-based processor

We are facing some difficulties to save our project on this server such as it takes around 15 minutes to save the project. Is it since we all 5 people are accessing one server at the same time.

Please let me know how can we solve this difficulty

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**Author:** ![P11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9adbd/32.png) [@P11](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/P11)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 7:57am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/server-for-designers-pc/12077/2 "2016-08-31T07:57:02Z")

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In my opinion you should work on separate projects and then make an union of alla the project parts using the export tool.

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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:** [August 31, 2016, 11:46am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/server-for-designers-pc/12077/3 "2016-08-31T11:46:06Z")

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Look at the server’s gateway status web page: how much memory is it using and how much is it allowed to use? Ignition, like most java applications, continually allocates temporary objects, and is lazy about cleaning them up. So when an app starts to run out of memory, java spends an inordinate amount of time looking for stale objects to throw away to make room. [Ignition’s max memory should be set](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC/Changing+Gateway+Memory+Allocation) so that it spends most of its time with at least 25% unused (per the status page).  
The defaults are rather small – suitable for solo developers w/ modest projects on their own machines.