March 26, 2021

How to Avoid Vscode From Causing High Cpu Load When You Have Directories With Many Files

Once I opened this one project, CPU load went through the roof and just did not stop. There is not much source code in the repository, but a lot of build artifacts get generated by it. I am using VS Code now for quite a while, and especially for this one repository, and I never noticed problems, until recently. As most of the time extensions are the cause for problems, the VS Code team even provides a kind of bisecting mechanism to help find faulty plugins....