Manipulating figure in any way makes cpu and ram go to 100%

So today I opened up MATLAB (R2014b) which worked fine yesterday and as soon as I wanted to zoom in, place the datacursor or set i.e. ylim([.. ..]) on a figure the cpu and ram usage was at 100% shortly after.

Any ideas?

EDIT: Little side note: When I try to initially zoom in once on the figure, it works, but if I do ylim or zoom some more the problem occurs.

Also, using

opengl software

did not fix the issue.

Answer 1

[michio]

I am not sure why the sudden issues, but if you are using R2014b or later, the following link could be of help.

Resolving Low-Level Graphics Issues

If you do use R2014b or later, please execute the following at the command window and try the same operations.

opengl software

If the issue is not going to be reproduced anymore, it's likely that the issue is caused by your graphics system.

Resolving low-level graphics issues in MATLAB R2014b

[VG]

Thanks for your answer. Apparently the issue was caused by that specific figure itself, for other figures it works fine. Should probably have tested that before. Well, thank you anyways!