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

[Ken Brown]

On 12/12/2013 3:42 PM, William M. (Mike) Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Okay, here it is:
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5QasYpFDUHeWGdsQ0RlWkk5Wm8/edit?usp=sharing

There's something weird going on with fonts.  I'm not very good at 
interpreting strace output, but it looks like emacs is trying to read 
all the fonts on your system and running out of memory.  I suggest that 
you delete the directories ~/.fontconfig and ~/.cache/fontconfig.  Then 
run (as administrator) "fc-cache -fsv".  See if that helps.

Ken

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