When I am about to download a VisualStudio Code extension, i want to check the downloads filesize. Sometimes when I am in a rural area, and am on a slow connection... downloading a large file can bring other network processes to their knees.
Is there a way to toggle visual studio code to show/preview each extensions download size?
Good question. Fortunately despite being on a rural exchange myself I've never had to worry that much about bandwidth. Aside, I don't know of a direct way within the VS Code Extension explorer but given that most extensions seems to be hosted on github or the like you could always visit the repo first and establish size through that?
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The idea behind this question, is have my document upfront, right on the sidebar, a split between files and upload to GitHub, and down below the terminal, in all projects starting now, I open every time my projects! I saw different questions on the platform, but didn't accurate answer to that, I thought.
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Miguel.
You should take a look at documentation which explains that in VS Code there are 2 modes for saving a setup of IDE - user settings and workspace settings.
Your modifications were probably saved in current workspace so when you open a fresh instance of VS Code by default you are using global user settings.
By default, it keeps the same screen.
We teach a Deep Learning course on our supercomputers, and one step which is prone for improvement/automation is the connection to the machines and text editing.
Our users come with extremely distinct backgrounds: from people who set up their own linux clusters to people who barely understand the concept of a text editor, given they always edited files on jupyter or collab.
What I would like to do is a double-click package users can download and it configures VS code to connect to our machines, downloads dependencies (like the extension for ssh), generate new ssh keys, and gives support for viewing image files, csv and so on.
My impression is that the way of doing so is, instead of a full package containing vs code and our configurations, would be to make an extension of VS code itself which does that, but I have no idea where to begin or if such a thing even makes sense.
Any pointers are welcome.
Sometimes when I open Visual Studio Code, C# has to download packages that it needs in order to work (for example, OmniSharp), but just like the title suggests, it's painfully slow to the point that I either forget or just don't want to get any work done.
So with that, is there a way to speed up the process?
If not, is it possible to disable the download?
I have been trying to figure this out, and cannot determine if it is possible or not.
Essentially, I commonly work with a VSCode window containing many files located on an external network drive (CIFS mount in Linux). When these files are changed "on-disk", they do not update in the editor until I switch focus to each file by changing the active editor tab. This means I have to switch tabs, wait for the update to process, and then repeat for all open tabs (could be 10 or 20 tabs).
Is there anyway to force all open editors to refresh or revert at once? That would ease my workflow a lot for examining differences between these open files on the fly. There's a command to "Revert File", but that only works on the open file, rather than all currently-opened ones. I've looked in the settings and browsed for an extension, but I can't find anything to accomplish this task.
Well, You can try to map the external network drive to local disk and give appropriate permission for read and write restriction.
If your computer has firewall or anti virus installed, then you must exclude vs access restriction from fw/av inspection.
Otherwise you can also improve your network adapter performance, associate to buffers, throughput, packet latency, etc.
Alternatively, you can use any source control, so your codes could be persist locally and could be synchronized from/to source control server.
Hope this could helps.
Does anyone know how to make VS Code use less memory?
It´s taking more than 2gb, sometimes more than 3 gigabytes to have some 8 files opened.
I'm on the VS code team.
There are many possible causes for high memory usage. We've put together tools and a guide that can help you investigate potential performance issues.
Start by using the process explorer. The process explorer shows the cpu and memory usage per child process of VS Code. Open it with the Open process explorer command. The process explorer should help you track down which processes are using the most memory. Often times, an extension will turn out to be the root cause
Also, even though you have only opened eight files, your workspace seems to be quite a bit larger than just those eight. Providing intellisense and other advanced editor features often requires processing many unopened files as well. Whether or not the 2-3gb is justified or not is hard to say without understanding what extensions you are using and what your workspace contains.
I recommend that you also take a look through the rest of our performance issue guide. It explains how to report performance issues and further investigate performance problems.
You could prevent vscode from watching folders with really many files in you project by adding this to your json settings file
"files.watcherExclude": {
"**/.git/objects/**": true,
"**/node_modules/**": true
}
It's because VS Code isn't a native program like Vim, Emacs, or even Sublime. Opening VS Code is like opening another Chrome window, it uses a lot of RAM, and CPU.
Neovim uses around 10 mbs of RAM (with some plugins), while vs code uses 700 mbs of RAM, with no file opened
Because VSCode is built on top of Electron, so under the hood it is just the same as web browser.
If you need more lighter memory use Sublime Text or Notepad++ instead
Check if your extensions are causing the bad things
I have used the guide https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/wiki/Performance-Issues#profile-the-running-extensions
to know why VS Code was
very slow to startup
taking much ram (3-4 gb)
You can create a CPU profile and share it in the issue with the extension author or us. To create a CPU profile:
Close all instances of VSCode and start with code --inspect-extensions=9993 or any other port number.
Execute the Developer: Show Running Extensions Command. This command opens an editor with all the running extensions. To start recording a profile
I found some extension with high delays and they were marked with unresponsive yellow triangle. I disabled them using right click context menu, restarted VS Code, and after that it
Takes only a few seconds to startup
Takes only ~250mb of ram
Not an actual solution, but launching VSC via code ./ --disable-extensionscan do so without requiring to manually disable all of them.