What causes DBCC CHECKTABLE to return "session is in the kill state"? A scheduled job step ran DBCC CHECKTABLE on a table but returned the following error:

Cannot continue the execution because the session is in the kill state. [SQLSTATE HY000] (Error 596). The step failed.

What causes this error?
After poking around, discovered that the volume was very low on space so probably didn't meet the free space requirements for &quot;dbcc checktable&quot;.