Fwd: emacs-X11 memory problem after Windows update

[Ken Brown]

On 12/12/2013 12:38 PM, William M. (Mike) Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> wrote:
>> On 12/12/2013 11:17 AM, William M. (Mike) Miller wrote:
>>>
>>> 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)
>>>> 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).
>>
>> I'm not sure turning off real-time protection is enough.  Can you actually
>> disable Windows Defender completely?
>
> Assuming that clearing the "Use this program" check box in the
> Administrator tab of Windows Defender "disables [it] completely," I
> just tried that, and it also made no difference.

Can you check the windows update history to see if anything there looks 
suspicious?

Ken

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