# Updating Gateway Memory Allocation, Slow Printing Times **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [May 22, 2025, 12:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/updating-gateway-memory-allocation-slow-printing-times/106556 "2025-05-22T12:24:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![shawn.heft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5fc32e/32.png) [@shawn.heft](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/shawn.heft)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 12:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/updating-gateway-memory-allocation-slow-printing-times/106556/1 "2025-05-22T12:24:56Z")
Hello, we have a ignition system in place that was designed offsite by a third party. There has been an issue the last few months with slow printing times for label printers, after looking into it I believe updating the memory allocation could improve condition (physical memory has been added already). ![{B1E10F32-EAC3-4770-B36F-2A138A632A2F}](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/a/9/a9192b0a906c78e5bb14c32ea00257d26caba1e5.png) I've downloaded ignition to update the " ignition.conf " file as required. However, I don't believe this is connected with my existing project so therefore won't actually modify memory allocation. Any feedback will be much appreciated! ---
**Author:** ![MMaynard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/mmaynard/32/3366_2.png) [@MMaynard](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/MMaynard)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 12:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/updating-gateway-memory-allocation-slow-printing-times/106556/2 "2025-05-22T12:41:56Z")
From the memory trend you are not being constrained by memory at all. What about the CPU? Do you have access to the actual server the gateway is running on? That is where you would have to modify the ignition.conf, but again you aren't memory constrained at all. If you have access to the actual server I would start looking at utilization there. ---
**Author:** ![David\_Lopez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@David\_Lopez](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/David_Lopez)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 4:46am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/updating-gateway-memory-allocation-slow-printing-times/106556/3 "2025-12-19T04:46:52Z")
Hey there! Based on your experience would this memory trend cause any issue? This Ignition server is running in an Industrial PC 8GB (Windows 11 IoT OS). If I increase Gateway memory to 6GB I’m facing some Clock Drift events even the server restarted itself. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/e/7/e73dc51cef1fc09f882594c8401ed30485f55aa5.png) Cheers, ---
**Author:** ![David\_Stone](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/david_stone/32/79749_2.png) [@David\_Stone](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/David_Stone)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 5:13am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/updating-gateway-memory-allocation-slow-printing-times/106556/4 "2025-12-19T05:13:21Z")
You should never have less than 8GB of ram allocated to Windows for normal operation. What you have here is a drastic overload of your server. If you need to allocate 6GB of ram to Ignition, you need 8+6GB total system ram as a bare minimum. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2025, 12:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/updating-gateway-memory-allocation-slow-printing-times/106556/5 "2025-12-19T12:54:31Z")
And your chart indicates your Ignition workload needs more than 6GB. A healthy sawtooth pattern goes from \<50% to ~90%. You probably need at least 12GB allocated to Ignition--possibly more.