# What Does Dormant Client Mean

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/what-does-dormant-client-mean/30431>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [December 4, 2019, 1:19pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/what-does-dormant-client-mean/30431 "2019-12-04T13:19:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![dkhayes117](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/dkhayes117/32/68344_2.png) [@dkhayes117](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/dkhayes117)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 1:19pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/what-does-dormant-client-mean/30431/1 "2019-12-04T13:19:18Z")

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I came in this morning to see that Ignition was running 69 clients instead of the normal 20. The client page showed that each project seemed to have about 3 clients open per computer with 2 of the three listed as dormant. What does that mean, I didn’t see anything listed in the manual about this, and why did it automatically open more clients?

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**Author:** ![dkhayes117](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/dkhayes117/32/68344_2.png) [@dkhayes117](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/dkhayes117)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 6:32pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/what-does-dormant-client-mean/30431/2 "2019-12-04T18:32:55Z")

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I found out from IT that an ethernet switch went down in the middle of the night and caused disconnections and in turn the dormant clients