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Subject: Re: Fwd: Fwd: emacs-X11 memory problem after Windows update
From: "William M. (Mike) Miller" <william DOT m DOT miller AT gmail DOT com>
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On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> 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.

I did not have those directories in my home directory, but I ran the
fc-cache command as you suggested, and that fixed the problem.
Thanks!

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

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