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Discovering tests is massive tests repos with pytest can cause high CPU load.

See original GitHub issue

Issue Type: Performance
Extension Name: python
Extension Version: 2022.10.0
OS Version: Darwin arm64 21.5.0
VS Code version: 1.69.2

⚠️ Make sure to attach this file from your home-directory: ⚠️file:///var/folders/sk/dqtd4j_50xx6n66myw0n4zn00000gp/T/ms-python.python-unresponsive.cpuprofile.txt

ms-python.python-unresponsive.cpuprofile.txt

The extension ‘Python’ took a very long time to complete its last operation and it has prevented other extensions from running.

Find more details here: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Explain-extension-causes-high-cpu-load

Issue Analytics

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Created a year ago
Reactions:2
Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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karthiknadigcommented, Jul 20, 2022

@AlbertMitjans One thing you can do is turn off discover on save, and see if it helps:

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karthiknadigcommented, Jul 19, 2022

Unfortunately, no workarounds for this scenario yet. We are working on a more robust test adapter for pytest that should perform better in these scenarios.

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