Fwd: emacs-X11 memory problem after Windows update

[Ken Brown]

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?

Ken

--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple