Fwd: emacs-X11 memory problem after Windows update

[Ken Brown]

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)
>> Does the problem occur with "emacs -Q"?
>
> Yes.
>
>> 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?

Ken

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