Same thing happened to me; rendered between one and five frames and then Blender crashed. This was an animation of almost 1800 frames with a deadline (two minutes per frame, so pure stress…).
Thing is, it was a heavy scene, 2.80 was still experimental (Dec 2018)and my computer is not the best, so I didn’t look in to it too much (no time…).
So, I can’t help you, but you’re not alone. Good luck (maybe you could try rendering without UI: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/2.80/advanced/command_line/render.html?highlight=background%20render)
