Fwd: emacs-X11 memory problem after Windows update

[William M. (Mike) Miller]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> wrote:
> On 12/12/2013 10:13 AM, William M. (Mike) Miller wrote:
>>
>> I'm running Windows 8.1 (cygcheck.out attached) and did a Windows
>> update this morning.  Since then I cannot run emacs-X11.  Sometimes
>> the message is:
>>
>> Memory exhausted--use M-x save-some-buffers then exit and restart Emacs
>>
>> Often there is no message.  Once I got:
>>
>> ***MEMORY-ERROR***: emacs[2924]: GSlice: failed to allocate 2040 bytes
>> (alignment: 2048): Cannot allocate memory
>>
>> Fatal error 6: AbortedAbort (core dumped)
> Does the problem occur with "emacs -Q"?

Yes.

> Have you checked http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.bloda ?

I hadn't previously.  The only thing on that list that I run, to the
best of my knowledge, is Windows Defender.  I turned off real-time
checking and tried emacs-X11 again, with the same result (a "Memory
exhausted" error).

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

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