Knime 5.5 Chromium Crashing

[ScottF]

Hi @Sarah_rushton and welcome to the forum.

I see you also posted this is the 5.5 Release thread. Did you see Martin’s reply there already?

Out now: KNIME Analytics Platform 5.5

Hi @Sarah_rushton, hi @jmartinsonhr23, as @leo_woerteler already remarked, it’s most likely due to the ‘embedded browser’ (CEF). We initialize CEF on start-up which helps to prevent problems when CEF is initialized on demand later and memory is tight. But you can turn that off by setting the system property -Dorg.knime.js.cef.skip_windowless_chromium_initialization=true. Maybe that helps as workaround (provided you don’t use view-image-generation or report-generation - which needs CEF and will …

While we’re working on a fix, since you’re already relying on KNIME for your scheduled workflows - have you considered our Team Plan? There’s a free trial available.