Jenkins Maven Build 137 Error

Question

I have a Maven project, which builds 6 separate Maven projects in Jenkins. The problem I face is that over the time the project build fails giving the 137 error code:

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Answer 1

I ran into the same error code. This error code does indeed seem related to JVM resource constraints in the Jenkins environment. I would suggest re-running the build a second time after the error occurs to see if you can get additional/different output, though this will certainly depend on which part of the build caused the resource issues (in my cause it was a Maven downloads).

Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: INFO: os::commit_memory(0x00000000fb7cb000, 7331840, 0) failed; error='Cannot allocate memory' (errno=12)
#
# There is insufficient memory for the Java Runtime Environment to continue.
# Native memory allocation (mmap) failed to map 7331840 bytes for committing reserved memory.
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# /vagrant/args4java/hs_err_pid10470.log
ERROR: Maven JVM terminated unexpectedly with exit code 1
Finished: FAILURE