Fwd: emacs-X11 memory problem after Windows update

[Ken Brown]

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)
>
> There was a previous report of this problem from last October (see
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-10/msg00149.html), but there was no
> resolution in that thread.
>
> emacs-w32 runs without problems, and that's an acceptable workaround
> for me at the moment, so this isn't an urgent issue for me currently.
> I'll be appreciative of any insights, however.

Does the problem occur with "emacs -Q"?

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

Ken

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