Bug: Battery drain even when app off due to Shan.code-settings-sync extension

Issue Type: Performance Issue

on brand new Apple 2022 Macbook Pro 14" M1

1. download vscode (universal mac version)
2. watch battery drain

I had >90% power 2hr ago and now I’m down to 46%, and I was using chrome but my mac tells me that vscode was using more power than anything else EVEN THOUGH I HAD YET TO TURN IT ON TODAY

Please look at this insane amount of battery usage for an app that’s turned off:

Update: It looks like there was a Code Helper (Renderer) (50803) task running from vscode that was using half of my CPU. I stopped that process. I opened vscode up again and it seems to be using a reasonable amount of CPU now (both that task and the Electron/other vscode-related tasks in total, that is). so maybe a background task just doesn’t quit and slowly snowballs over time.

Update: Looks like everything is going fine now! So it must be due to some task that gets started right after install or first startup. Below, you can see my usage with vscode off and before I turned that task off, then I charged my comp, then I reopened vscode to do things and it’s consuming expected amount of power.

VS Code version: Code 1.66.2 (Universal) (dfd34e8260c270da74b5c2d86d61aee4b6d56977, 2022-04-11T07:49:20.994Z) OS version: Darwin arm64 21.1.0 Restricted Mode: No

System Info

Item	Value
CPUs	Apple M1 Pro (10 x 24)
GPU Status	2d_canvas: enabled canvas_oop_rasterization: disabled_off direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok gpu_compositing: enabled metal: disabled_off multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on oop_rasterization: enabled opengl: enabled_on rasterization: enabled raw_draw: disabled_off_ok skia_renderer: enabled_on video_decode: enabled video_encode: enabled webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled
Load (avg)	8, 8, 8
Memory (System)	16.00GB (0.20GB free)
Process Argv	–crash-reporter-id 8fff6564-6630-48c8-8217-d84848fc2769
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%

Process Info

CPU %	Mem MB	   PID	Process
   26	   213	 47499	code main
    0	    66	 47506	   gpu-process
    0	    33	 47508	   utility-network-service
    0	   279	 47509	   window (Get Started)
    1	   164	 47532	   shared-process
    3	    66	 47535	     ptyHost
    1	    49	 47560	     fileWatcher
    0	     0	 47605	     /bin/ps -ax -o pid=,ppid=,pcpu=,pmem=,command=
    3	    98	 47534	   extensionHost
    0	    98	 47591	   issue-reporter

Workspace Info

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Extensions: none

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[CreeperMaster719]

I really hope there is one soon… My 16 inch MBP 2021 went from full to 10% in under two hours. It hit 198 in the energy tab of activity monitor, and it hit 432% cpu usage… Crazy bug!

[madhusudhand]

Kill the process Code Helper (Renderer) in activity monitor. After that it works fine for me.

Related ticket: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/101555