Fwd: emacs-X11 memory problem after Windows update

[William M. (Mike) Miller]

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.

-- 
William M. (Mike) Miller | Edison Design Group
william.m.miller@gmail.com

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