Alpine 3.6 Docker container error on stop (exit code 137)

Question

Container running on Ubuntu 16.04

Below how I do (Random name sad_wiles created):

docker run -it -d alpine /bin/ash
docker run -it -d alpine /bin/sh
docker run -ti -d alpine

docker start sad_wiles running fine and I can enter & exit sh

However, docker stop sad_wiles giving exit code 137. Below is the log:

2017-11-25T23:22:25.301992880+08:00 container kill 61ea1f10c98e2462f496f9048dcc6b45e536d3f7ba14747f7f22b96afb2db60d (image=alpine, name=sad_wiles, signal=15)
2017-11-25T23:22:35.302560688+08:00 container kill 61ea1f10c98e2462f496f9048dcc6b45e536d3f7ba14747f7f22b96afb2db60d (image=alpine, name=sad_wiles, signal=9)
2017-11-25T23:22:35.328791538+08:00 container die 61ea1f10c98e2462f496f9048dcc6b45e536d3f7ba14747f7f22b96afb2db60d (exitCode=137, image=alpine, name=sad_wiles)
2017-11-25T23:22:35.547890765+08:00 network disconnect 3b36d7a71af5a43f0ee3cb95c159514a6d5a02d0d5d8cf903f51d619d6973b35 (container=61ea1f10c98e2462f496f9048dcc6b45e536d3f7ba14747f7f22b96afb2db60d, name=bridge, type=bridge)
2017-11-25T23:22:35.647073922+08:00 container stop 61ea1f10c98e2462f496f9048dcc6b45e536d3f7ba14747f7f22b96afb2db60d (image=alpine, name=sad_wiles)

Answer 1

This is not an error as mentioned in the comment by @yament 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. As mentioned here, it's a linux standard: 128 + 9 = 137 (9 coming from SIGKILL).

You can increase your memory limit in Docker App > Preferences > Advanced on Mac os. As changing this mem_limit=384m to 512m works. Here is additional resunce will help you, Exit Status