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


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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