# 8.3.3 Designer Crashing / Vanishing

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/8-3-3-designer-crashing-vanishing/114147>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition83\
**Created:** [February 24, 2026, 5:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/8-3-3-designer-crashing-vanishing/114147 "2026-02-24T17:24:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shea\_Molthen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Shea\_Molthen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Shea_Molthen)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2026, 5:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/8-3-3-designer-crashing-vanishing/114147/1 "2026-02-24T17:24:57Z")

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Myself and several people on my team are experiencing an issue where the Designer will randomly crash and completely disappear with no warning, popup, or error message.

There’s no freeze or slowdown beforehand, it just instantly vanishes as if the process was killed. This happens unpredictably, 0-3 times a day.

Is this happening to anyone else? Anywhere I could look for additional logs?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![andrew.budaiev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/andrew.budaiev/32/72921_2.png) [@andrew.budaiev](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/andrew.budaiev)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2026, 11:19pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/8-3-3-designer-crashing-vanishing/114147/2 "2026-02-24T23:19:42Z")

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Have you checked what's in the `wrapper.log`?

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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:** [February 25, 2026, 12:19am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/8-3-3-designer-crashing-vanishing/114147/3 "2026-02-25T00:19:51Z")

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You will need to run the designer executable in a terminal. (Look at the launcher log for the `nohup .... &` long command line. Omit the `nohup` and `&` in the terminal.

(Designers do not log to the gateway's wrapper.)

I will hazard a guess that you are not giving your designers enough RAM.

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**Author:** ![Shea\_Molthen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Shea\_Molthen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Shea_Molthen)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 2:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/8-3-3-designer-crashing-vanishing/114147/4 "2026-02-25T14:47:37Z")

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Designer memory is set to max at 4gb. I’ll give this a shot and report back when I get some logs.