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GitHub Action is being killed

I'm running a little python project to collect data. It's being triggered by a scheduled GitHub Action script (every midnight). As part of expanding the project I've added the pycaret library to the project. So currently installing the requirements for the project is taking about 15 minutes, plus running the python project is another 10 minutes. But the interesting part is that now the action/job is being killed with:

/home/runner/work/_temp/bad86621-8542-4ea5-ae93-6f59b7ee2463.sh: line 1:  4382 Killed  
   python main.py 
Error: Process completed with exit code 137.

Now i'vew tried looking up the reason for the process being killed by i have found nothing in GitHub Actions i'm running the job on ubuntu-latest machine in GitHub actions. i've set the job timeout to 60 minutes , so i don't think that is the issue.

Solution

  • Error 137 indicates that the container (runner/build agent) that builds your project received SIGKILL and terminated. It can be initiated manually or by the host machine when the runner exceeds its allocated memory limit.

    In your case, since it is initiated by Github itself, then it is generally due to being out of memory.

    (P.S. This is a very late answer, but it may help some folks)