Brainstore Container Crashes on Startup With Exit Code 132.

Last updated: May 27, 2025

This issue can occur when you're trying to run Brainstore on a CPU architecture that does not support some of the Brainstore compile-time optimizations.

For AMD-64, Brainstore is compiled by default with a number of optimizations enabled. For example, Brainstore is compiled to use AVX2 instructions which are not available in all AWS Intel/AMD CPU families. AVX2 is a SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) extension to the x86 instruction set, allowing for more efficient processing of integer and floating-point operations, potentially speeding up workloads that make heavy use of these instructions.

In the AWS environment, AVX2 support is available in several EC2 instance families, including Intel-based instances like M5zn, T3a, C6a, Hpc6a, and AMD-based instances like Hpc7a, M6a, and C6a

AWS Graviton instances do not support the AMD-64 optimizations, and the Brainstore ARM-64 container should run without issue on any appropriately-sized Graviton instances.

The solution is to migrate to a Graviton instance, or select a compatible Intel or AMD-64 instance types.