Fixing Elasticsearch + CircleCI + Exit code 137
I recently encountered the error “Exited with code 137” on CircleCI when using it in conjunction with Elasticsearch:
The config for elasticsearch was set as so:
- image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:6.8.6
environment:
- cluster.name: elasticsearch
- transport.host: localhost
- network.host: 127.0.0.1
- http.port: 9200
- discovery.type: single-node
- xpack.security.enabled: false
After some research, I found that I needed to add the following environment option:
- ES_JAVA_OPTS: -Xms750m -Xmx750m
What does this do? It sets the heap size for the JVM. It defines a minimum and maximum heap size of 750 MB.
So your config would look like this:
- image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:6.8.6
environment:
- cluster.name: elasticsearch
- transport.host: localhost
- network.host: 127.0.0.1
- http.port: 9200
- discovery.type: single-node
- xpack.security.enabled: false
- ES_JAVA_OPTS: -Xms750m -Xmx750m