Why does my Perl script exit with 137?

Question

Is there a way to eliminate a warning (exit code 137) in perl? I am running a Perl script on linux within another shell script. This Perl script exits with a warning and exi

Answer 1

I got the same error code 137 from an ANT script. Looking at /var/log/messages, I understand it's out of memory error.

Jun 21 07:33:30 myhost kernel: Out of memory: Kill process 52959 (java) score 164 or sacrifice child
Jun 21 07:33:30 myhost kernel: Killed process 52959 (java) total-vm:709496kB, anon-rss:397016kB, file-rss:0kB