VSCode eats memory and slows down my Macbook Pro

[rockymontana]

• VSCode Version:1.0.0
• OS Version: OS X El Capitan 10.11.4

Steps to Reproduce:
One plausable reason:

1. Install "npm commands"-extension and run your project from VSCode
2. After a while the computer acts like an Windows Vista install on an old computer (imagine that!)

However:
Even though I did stop the npm stuff (didn't uninstall it though) it still drains my computer of all its powers.
So I'm not 100% sure it relates to the extension.

I'm sorry if this bug report is hard to understand. I'm writing this out of memory. I can try and reproduce it and update it if you haven't heard anything about this before.

[bpasero]

@rockymontana does this happen on all workspaces you open or maybe only on a very large one?

[rockymontana]

The one I use now isnt very large.
Its actually very small.

But yeah... When you mention it, I did uncheck an "ignore node_modules" for indexing (I guess?).
This so that I could easily go to my react components that I installed with npm. Because otherwise I had to scroll through the whole list of node modules which was a hastle.

And on that note - filtering on folder names when one starts to type in focused tree mode would be soooooo awesome :-)

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[bpasero]

@rockymontana what exactly did you uncheck and how and where?

[coggers]

I've noticed this recently, same versions of OS X/VS Code.

It's a medium sized project consisting of a couple node apps and a small website, I originally noticed it a few days ago when the typescript autocomplete was taking forever to load and eventually stopped working - I restarted VSCode and it would work again. I since noticed my whole machine.

Trying to work out what's causing it just now, but it looks like just opening a few js/ts/json files into the working file list caused it to use over 1.1GB of memory. I switched between debug/search/git tabs and it didn't seem to have an immediate effect, but in the few minutes I've written this it's now idling on 1.4GB.

[bpasero]

@coggers can you please find out which of the multiple processes Code spawns is the one with a lot of memory in your case?

[coggers]

@bpasero It's Electron Helper

[bpasero]

@coggers we need more info, the full command line of the helper! E.g. ps aux | grep helper

[tan9]

@bpasero same problem here, my process information:

09:45 $ ps aux | grep Electron
tang            74428 100.0  0.5  3386340  89256   ??  R    11:03AM 439:29.28 /opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/visual-studio-code/1.1.0,c212f0908f3d29933317bbc3233568fbca7944b1/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Frameworks/Electron Helper.app/Contents/MacOS/Electron Helper /Users/tang/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode.jscs-0.1.5/node_modules/vscode-languageclient/lib/utils/electronForkStart /Users/tang/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode.jscs-0.1.5/server/server.js
tang            14645   0.0  0.2  3252420  37760   ??  S     9:35AM   0:00.90 /opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/visual-studio-code/1.1.0,c212f0908f3d29933317bbc3233568fbca7944b1/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Frameworks/Electron Helper.app/Contents/MacOS/Electron Helper /opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/visual-studio-code/1.1.0,c212f0908f3d29933317bbc3233568fbca7944b1/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/bootstrap --type=watcherService
tang            14610   0.0  0.0  2489644   3244   ??  S     9:35AM   0:00.01 /opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/visual-studio-code/1.1.0,c212f0908f3d29933317bbc3233568fbca7944b1/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Frameworks/Electron Framework.framework/Resources/crashpad_handler --database=/tmp/VSCode Crashes --url=https://ticinocrashreporter.azurewebsites.net/crash --handshake-fd=61
tang            43263   0.0  0.0  2545816   2752   ??  S    Wed05PM   0:00.40 /opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/visual-studio-code/1.1.0,c212f0908f3d29933317bbc3233568fbca7944b1/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Frameworks/Electron Framework.framework/Resources/crashpad_handler --database=/tmp/VSCode Crashes --url=https://ticinocrashreporter.azurewebsites.net/crash --handshake-fd=61
tang            11187   0.0  0.0  3220200   1124   ??  S    Wed11AM   0:01.02 /opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/visual-studio-code/1.1.0,c212f0908f3d29933317bbc3233568fbca7944b1/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Frameworks/Electron Helper.app/Contents/MacOS/Electron Helper /opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/visual-studio-code/1.1.0,c212f0908f3d29933317bbc3233568fbca7944b1/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/bootstrap /usr/local/bin/git /Users/tang/Git Repositories/rakr-widget utf8 /opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/visual-studio-code/1.1.0,c212f0908f3d29933317bbc3233568fbca7944b1/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/MacOS/Electron 2.8.2
tang             7897   0.0  0.0  2518316    500   ??  S    Wed11AM   0:00.03 /opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/visual-studio-code/1.1.0,c212f0908f3d29933317bbc3233568fbca7944b1/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Frameworks/Electron Framework.framework/Resources/crashpad_handler --database=/tmp/VSCode Crashes --url=https://ticinocrashreporter.azurewebsites.net/crash --handshake-fd=61

[bpasero]

Pei-Tang Huang (@tan9) that looks like the JSCS linter given the path of the 100% CPU. Please report to https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-jscs

Jonas Erlandsson (@rockymontana)
A number of days has past without answer on the questions asked. I am thereby going to close this issue to clean up our backlog of issues. Once you can answer on the questions, the issue can be reopened again. Thanks for understanding this process!