What is Docker container exit code 137?

[synergiator]

Is there an official exit code list?

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[HackToday]

I think it is linux standard, check here

http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/exitcodes.html

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[cpuguy83]

The exit code is not from Docker, it is from the process in the container.

[cjellick]

Commenting because this shows up in google searches.
You'll see this exit code when you do a docker stop and the initial graceful stop fails and docker has to do a sigkill. Per @HackToday's comment/link it is a standard: 128 + 9 = 137 (9 coming from SIGKILL).

[chiraglakhani69]

To tackle, you might want to try changing memory allocation in Docker > Preference > Memory (for Mac with local docker setup). Should try increasing it.

[j3pic]

Also commenting because I ended up here from Google. If you're getting this error from Docker 4 Mac, it's likely because the Linux OOM killer is getting triggered. Allocating more RAM to Docker solves it.

[monowai]

I came across this page when ElasticSearch failed to start. I was trying to keep it's memory low so had configured mem_limit=384m and it was terminating with this error code. Setting the limit to 512m fixed it. So perhaps the issue is memory related.

[thaJeztah]

The exit status is documented in https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/run/#exit-status (source: https://github.com/docker/cli/blob/master/docs/reference/run.md#exit-status), but may need some additional explanation; if someone is interested in opening a pull request, that would be welcome

[svetob]

Repeating what's said above, this happens on OSX because of Docker 4 Mac's hard memory cap. You can increase your memory limit in Docker App > Preferences > Advanced.