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On Sep 27, 5:15 pm, swgillan <swgil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was recently reviewing a webinar on large datasets, and the person
> running the webinar ran a function called WriteMalloc (or something
> like that).
>
> Essentially what it did was it was a plot window that updated every
> second with the amount of memory used by the matlab session.
>
> I am looking at writing something similar, but I have never seen a
> figure get updated and run parallel with inputting in the command
> window. Does anyone know how this might be done?
>
> This isn't vital, but it was one of those things that I have never
> seen before, and think it could be really handy.

If you're using Linux, Conky can do this for you.
http://conky.sourceforge.net/