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From: swgillan <swgillan@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Running a function in the background
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:10:27 -0700 (PDT)
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On Sep 28, 12:01 pm, TideMan <mul...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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/

I am not looking at the specific Malloc and memory case, but more
having the figure updating in the background, while I work in the
command window.