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Re: A workaround against Emacs crash when displaying images
- From: Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 15:55:29 +0000
- Subject: Re: A workaround against Emacs crash when displaying images
- References: <b4mr2bjo7qp.fsf@jpl.org>
On 3/6/2019 7:20 PM, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I found a workaround for Emacs from crashing that always happens
> when displaying images in an html article using Gnus. That is:
>
> export MAGICK_THREAD_LIMIT=1
>
> According to the Google search someone said the crash arises due
> to a bug in ImageMagick incorporating OpenMP. I don't know what
> it means at all, though. ;-)
>
> Regards,
>
> uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-10.0 localhost 3.0.2(0.338/5/3) 2019-03-05 18:57 x86_64 Cygwin
Is this a new issue with cygwin-3.0.x? If so, it might be related to the memory
leak that was recently discovered (and fixed in the latest snapshot):
http://www.cygwin.org/ml/cygwin/2019-03/msg00122.html
Ken