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


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.

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