Closed edwardalee closed 1 year ago
A bit more information. This happened again, but now it was cpptools
hanging. Killing the process resulted in this:
This seems like these might be two separate bugs. Code helper apparently has multiple GitHub issues that either are open or that got closed without resolution. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/148226 is an example. It seems like this problem might be macOS-specific. There is a lot of discussion about it in the internet apparently, including a possible workaround here.
I'm not entirely sure whether code helper is related to anything we do since the only mentions I could find of it are these bug reports :sweat_smile:. But definitely the problem with cpptools
is not our issue, since our language server does not and probably will not ever interact with cpptools
, except by creating CMakeLists.txt files that confuse it.
Ok, let's close this then.
Every once in a while, the VS Code helper on my Mac goes into an infinite loop using 100% of CPU and hanging. Code displays a box offering to reopen and the Activity Monitor shows 100% usage: