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Use vscode-nsfw watcher

See original GitHub issue

I’m seeing very high CPU usage when running code-server on my Mac Pro (SSD disk). I run it in a project root that contains all my projects, which have lots of node_modules files etc. This high CPU usage continues even when not doing anything with code-server / VSCode for a long time.

Version

code-server version: 1.31.1-100
OS Version: darwin-x64 node-v8.9.3

Steps to Reproduce

Run code-server on Mac in project root (lots of projects under it)
Open code-server in two Chrome browser windows (on a Windows computer)
Observe high continuous CPU usage

screenshot 2019-03-08 at 13 49 40

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 5 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:10 (4 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

3reactions

kennucommented, Mar 8, 2019

The subprocesses taking all the CPU seem to be the ones with these parameters:

13819 kennu code-server --bootstrap-fork vs/workbench/services/files/node/watcher/unix/watcherApp --args ["--type=watcherService"] --data-dir /Users/kennu/.code-server

14132 kennu code-server --bootstrap-fork vs/workbench/services/files/node/watcher/unix/watcherApp --args ["--type=watcherService"] --data-dir /Users/kennu/.code-server

(They also include a long --env parameter but I removed it from here.)

screenshot 2019-03-08 at 18 55 02

2reactions

kylecarbscommented, Mar 8, 2019

Ah wonderful. We’ll be able to fix this for sure!

There’s an issue regarding this on vscode as well: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/3998

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