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Fwd: Fwd: emacs-X11 memory problem after Windows update


On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 02:45:27PM -0500, Ken Brown wrote:
>>On 12/12/2013 1:25 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 12:13:34PM -0500, Ken Brown wrote:
>>>> On 12/12/2013 11:41 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:
>>>>> Ken Brown writes:
>>>>>>> ***MEMORY-ERROR***: emacs[2924]: GSlice: failed to allocate 2040 bytes
>>>>>>> (alignment: 2048): Cannot allocate memory
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm seeing the same thing on Win7/64 Pro, both for 64bit and 32bit
>>>>> Cygwin.  Since I don't normally use the X11 Emacs, unfortunately I don't
>>>>> know which update was introducing this, it used to worked OK a few weeks
>>>>> ago.
>>>>
>>>> And do you also use Windows Defender?
>>>>
>>>> If this isn't BLODA, I'm completely stumped.
>>>
>>> Would running under strace help?
>>
>>It might.  Achim or Mike (or anyone who can reproduce this problem),
>>could you run "strace -o strace.out emacs-X11 -Q" and post strace.out
>>somewhere?
>
> Btw, posting it somewhere is a good suggestion since strace output seems
> to be giving spamassassin some problems lately, making it hard to send
> here.

Okay, here it is:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5QasYpFDUHeWGdsQ0RlWkk5Wm8/edit?usp=sharing

I was watching this in Task Manager; the emacs-X11 process got up to
around 400+ MB before dying with a segfault.

BTW, I am beginning to think that the link with Windows Update is a
red herring; I uninstalled all the updates from this morning, one by
one, and emacs-X11 still failed.  I then rolled back to a restore
point from a couple of days ago, again to no effect.  I don't know
what changed, though; everything was working fine until this morning.

-- 
William M. (Mike) Miller | Edison Design Group
william.m.miller@gmail.com

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