Gradle check fails but tests finish with success

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If we run tests on a local machine all tests pass and gradle reports success.
But if we ran the tests on travis-ci.org they fail. Gradle reports for every test Passed but fails at the end with the following error message

Process 'Gradle Test Executor 6' finished with non-zero exit value 137

One failing example is https://travis-ci.org/Dica-Developer/weplantaforest/builds/67823422
We use gradle 2.4.

The complete stacktrace:

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':test'.
> Process 'Gradle Test Executor 6' finished with non-zero exit value 137
* Try:
Run with --debug option to get more log output.
* Exception is:
org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskExecutionException: Execution failed for task ':test'.
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.executeActions(ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.java:69)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.execute(ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.java:46)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.PostExecutionAnalysisTaskExecuter.execute(PostExecutionAnalysisTaskExecuter.java:35)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.SkipUpToDateTaskExecuter.execute(SkipUpToDateTaskExecuter.java:64)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ValidatingTaskExecuter.execute(ValidatingTaskExecuter.java:58)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.SkipEmptySourceFilesTaskExecuter.execute(SkipEmptySourceFilesTaskExecuter.java:42)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.SkipTaskWithNoActionsExecuter.execute(SkipTaskWithNoActionsExecuter.java:52)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.SkipOnlyIfTaskExecuter.execute(SkipOnlyIfTaskExecuter.java:53)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteAtMostOnceTaskExecuter.execute(ExecuteAtMostOnceTaskExecuter.java:43)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.AbstractTask.executeWithoutThrowingTaskFailure(AbstractTask.java:310)
	at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.AbstractTaskPlanExecutor$TaskExecutorWorker.executeTask(AbstractTaskPlanExecutor.java:79)
	at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.AbstractTaskPlanExecutor$TaskExecutorWorker.processTask(AbstractTaskPlanExecutor.java:63)
	at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.AbstractTaskPlanExecutor$TaskExecutorWorker.run(AbstractTaskPlanExecutor.java:51)
	at org.gradle.internal.concurrent.ExecutorPolicy$CatchAndRecordFailures.onExecute(ExecutorPolicy.java:54)
	at org.gradle.internal.concurrent.StoppableExecutorImpl$1.run(StoppableExecutorImpl.java:40)
Caused by: org.gradle.process.internal.ExecException: Process 'Gradle Test Executor 6' finished with non-zero exit value 137
	at org.gradle.process.internal.DefaultExecHandle$ExecResultImpl.assertNormalExitValue(DefaultExecHandle.java:365)
	at org.gradle.process.internal.DefaultWorkerProcess.waitForStop(DefaultWorkerProcess.java:161)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.testing.worker.ForkingTestClassProcessor.stop(ForkingTestClassProcessor.java:86)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.testing.processors.RestartEveryNTestClassProcessor.endBatch(RestartEveryNTestClassProcessor.java:60)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.testing.processors.RestartEveryNTestClassProcessor.stop(RestartEveryNTestClassProcessor.java:54)
	at org.gradle.messaging.dispatch.ReflectionDispatch.dispatch(ReflectionDispatch.java:35)
	at org.gradle.messaging.dispatch.ReflectionDispatch.dispatch(ReflectionDispatch.java:24)
	at org.gradle.messaging.dispatch.FailureHandlingDispatch.dispatch(FailureHandlingDispatch.java:29)
	at org.gradle.messaging.dispatch.AsyncDispatch.dispatchMessages(AsyncDispatch.java:132)
	at org.gradle.messaging.dispatch.AsyncDispatch.access$000(AsyncDispatch.java:33)
	at org.gradle.messaging.dispatch.AsyncDispatch$1.run(AsyncDispatch.java:72)
	... 2 more
BUILD FAILED
Total time: 3 mins 14.867 secs
Stopped 0 compiler daemon(s).
Received result CommandFailure[value=org.gradle.launcher.exec.ReportedException: org.gradle.internal.exceptions.LocationAwareException: Execution failed for task ':test'.] from daemon DaemonInfo{pid=1907, address=[ef66df90-dd4f-4a73-b635-7a50f8e37edd port:43711, addresses:[/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1%lo, /127.0.0.1]], idle=true, context=DefaultDaemonContext[uid=e55e930a-a31d-4b87-b791-54698349ad8e,javaHome=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle,daemonRegistryDir=/home/travis/.gradle/daemon,pid=1907,idleTimeout=10800000,daemonOpts=-XX:MaxPermSize=256m,-XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError,-Xmx1024m,-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8,-Duser.country=US,-Duser.language=en,-Duser.variant]}.
The command "./gradlew test -i --stacktrace" exited with 1.
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@Adrian_Kelly was seeing this when we were running PR builds on TravisCI. Did you ever track it down?

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TravisCI issues a SIGKILL when the process running tests consumes too much system resources.
@mschaaf are your tests doing something resource intensive?
Most likely this is a TravisCI limitation and not a Gradle issue.

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Thanks for your answers. We are running parallel builds with maximum parallel forks equals maximum available processors. I will check if reducing this helps.

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Yes reducing this fixes the problem. Thanks for helping.