Docker and CI/CD · Middle · Question 19 of 75

A container stops with exit code 137. What is the likely cause?

✓Correct answer: It was killed by SIGKILL, often for exceeding its memory limit
2The app threw an unhandled exception during startup
3The image was built for a different CPU architecture

Explanation

128 + 9 (SIGKILL). docker inspect shows OOMKilled: true when the memory limit was hit. Exit 143 (128 + 15) means SIGTERM.

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