# Synfig crashes when I run play of animation **URL:** \ **Category:** Debugging\ **Created:** [September 18, 2016, 12:07pm UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/synfig-crashes-when-i-run-play-of-animation/3992 "2016-09-18T12:07:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dubis](https://forums.synfig.org/user_avatar/forums.synfig.org/dubis/32/3875_2.png) [@dubis](https://forums.synfig.org/u/dubis)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2016, 12:07pm UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/synfig-crashes-when-i-run-play-of-animation/3992/1 "2016-09-18T12:07:04Z")
Hi, I’m beguinner on Synfig. My OS is Kubuntu 16.04 and my version Synfig Studio is 1.0.2. I worked during 2 hours creating my project and I don’t know why Synfig crashes when I click play. I joined the file Thanks for help [Synfig Animation svg.sifz](https://forums.synfig.org/uploads/default/original/2X/d/df72bce86a6371d26d1272dc5851e0018983c9f1.sifz) (13.7 KB) ---
**Author:** ![BobSynfig](https://forums.synfig.org/user_avatar/forums.synfig.org/bobsynfig/32/175_2.png) [@BobSynfig](https://forums.synfig.org/u/BobSynfig)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2016, 3:24pm UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/synfig-crashes-when-i-run-play-of-animation/3992/2 "2016-09-18T15:24:38Z")
Hi and welcome here, tested ok with 1.0.2 under Windows. Beware, newer versions of Synfig use a slightly different file format, then it makes crash 1.1.11 😕 I would advice you to use a dev version as 1.0.2 is known to be buggy in some points and you will not have necessarilly the possibility to use you 1.0.2 files in newer version. Cheers ---
**Author:** ![Majkel](https://forums.synfig.org/user_avatar/forums.synfig.org/majkel/32/190_2.png) [@Majkel](https://forums.synfig.org/u/Majkel)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 10:32pm UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/synfig-crashes-when-i-run-play-of-animation/3992/3 "2016-09-21T22:32:47Z")
I have the same problem, but it might be oom (out of memory) killer. Oom killer kills program when memory is low, each program have scale, higher number- program will be kill first. To change scale/score you need to find pid of synfig: 1.run synfig 2.open terminal and write ` pidof synfigstudio `and you got pid. 3.you can check oom score of synfig by command ` cat /proc/PID/oom_score `oom score is from -17 to 17. 4.to change score you need to write ` sudo echo X > /proc/PID/oom_adj `where X is from -17 to 17 (we want lower so the number must be on minus) 5.and done, you can check if this work by ` cat /proc/PID/oom_score ` I found this in page: [oracle.com/technetwork/artic … 11807.html](http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/servers-storage-dev/oom-killer-1911807.html) ---
**Author:** ![dubis](https://forums.synfig.org/user_avatar/forums.synfig.org/dubis/32/3875_2.png) [@dubis](https://forums.synfig.org/u/dubis)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2016, 6:38pm UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/synfig-crashes-when-i-run-play-of-animation/3992/4 "2016-11-20T18:38:03Z")
Hi everyone, Sorry for the late answer. I went to finish a project. For finish it, I created several files I didn’t lost of time in recreating the project. I’m beginning a new project, and after 3 hours of work until my file is corrupted again. I tried to configure the OOM Killer putting the OOM score to -17, as recommend by Majkel and as it wrote in several documentation. The opening of the corrupted file took long times without success, synfig crash again. Isn’t it a solution to restore this file of 77,2Ko So I’m going to do the project from crash in following the same process than before making many backup Thanks ---
**Author:** ![dubis](https://forums.synfig.org/user_avatar/forums.synfig.org/dubis/32/3875_2.png) [@dubis](https://forums.synfig.org/u/dubis)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2017, 6:28pm UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/synfig-crashes-when-i-run-play-of-animation/3992/5 "2017-01-02T18:28:43Z")
No more bug related So you could close the post or delete it. Thank anyway