# Designer doesn't launch

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-doesnt-launch/103805>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** designer, ignition81\
**Created:** [March 17, 2025, 7:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-doesnt-launch/103805 "2025-03-17T19:29:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Marcos\_Verdugo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@Marcos\_Verdugo](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Marcos_Verdugo)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 7:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-doesnt-launch/103805/1 "2025-03-17T19:29:25Z")

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Hi, a few days ago we update Ignition 8.0.2 to 8.1.47, Everything was working fine but suddenly we had a shutdown of the gateway. After we started again the Ignition service on Windows it started working normally but we are not able to open the designer.  
We have this error: ERROR [LaunchUtil] [2025/03/17 14:58:23]: Launch Error Occurred: Java process launch failed with error code 1: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM warning: INFO: os::commit\_memory(0x0000000080000000, 2147483648, 0) failed; error='The paging file is too small for this operation to complete' (DOS error/errno=1455)

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/a/a/aa002eee82c643c9a120f152df41260708b1cf88.png)

Does anybody know how can we solve it?

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 7:32pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-doesnt-launch/103805/2 "2025-03-17T19:32:20Z")

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Are you trying to launch the Designer on the same machine as the server or somewhere else?

I think this is just a scary looking error that just means you don't have enough memory for however much memory the Designer was configured to use.

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**Author:** ![Marcos\_Verdugo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@Marcos\_Verdugo](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Marcos_Verdugo)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 3:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-doesnt-launch/103805/3 "2025-03-18T15:10:14Z")

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On the same machine as the server, I think we just change the Init heap = 2048M, same as the Max Heap = 2048M on the designer size. Probably is because of that.

But prior these we werent able to open a project either, this is what it is shown:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/3/3/33b2e801f802121293a733f4eefdac6453782f5f.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 3:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-doesnt-launch/103805/4 "2025-03-18T15:17:16Z")

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Just looks like another error about how you don't have enough memory.

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**Author:** ![Marcos\_Verdugo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@Marcos\_Verdugo](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Marcos_Verdugo)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 3:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-doesnt-launch/103805/5 "2025-03-18T15:18:06Z")

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So, it probably is caused because the VM doesnt have enough resources?

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 3:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-doesnt-launch/103805/6 "2025-03-18T15:18:31Z")

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Probably.

Ideally, you don't run your Designer on the same machine as the Gateway.