Too much battery drain on Macbook Pro (M1 Pro)

[koushikb19]

Type: Bug

I'm using VSCode on my 14" Macbook Pro (M1 Pro) and there is too much battery drain on VS code since the last couple of days. Even on standby mode. My laptop had discharged because of this

VS Code version: Code 1.91.1 (Universal) (f1e16e1e6214d7c44d078b1f0607b2388f29d729, 2024-07-09T22:07:54.982Z) OS version: Darwin arm64 23.5.0 Modes:

System Info

|Item|Value| |---|---| |CPUs|Apple M1 Pro (8 x 2400)| |GPU Status|2d_canvas: enabled
canvas_oop_rasterization: enabled_on
direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok
gpu_compositing: enabled
multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on
opengl: enabled_on
rasterization: enabled
raw_draw: disabled_off_ok
skia_graphite: disabled_off
video_decode: enabled
video_encode: enabled
webgl: enabled
webgl2: enabled
webgpu: enabled| |Load (avg)|6, 5, 7| |Memory (System)|16.00GB (0.06GB free)| |Process Argv|--crash-reporter-id 8fdebaa2-4c93-44ad-8319-623cc539b442| |Screen Reader|no| |VM|0%|

Extensions (30)

Extension|Author (truncated)|Version ---|---|--- better-comments|aar|3.0.2 ng-template|Ang|18.1.2 npm-intellisense|chr|1.4.5 vscode-eslint|dba|3.0.10 gitlens|eam|15.2.0 vscode-html-css|ecm|2.0.10 vsc-material-theme|Equ|34.4.0 vsc-material-theme-icons|equ|3.6.1 auto-rename-tag|for|0.1.10 copilot|Git|1.213.0 copilot-chat|Git|0.17.1 npm|ide|1.7.4 Angular2|joh|16.0.1 vscode-peacock|joh|4.2.2 vscode-docker|ms-|1.29.1 debugpy|ms-|2024.8.0 python|ms-|2024.10.0 vscode-pylance|ms-|2024.7.1 remote-containers|ms-|0.375.1 remote-ssh|ms-|0.112.0 remote-ssh-edit|ms-|0.86.0 remote-explorer|ms-|0.4.3 gremlins|nho|0.26.0 svelte-autoimport|piv|1.0.4 material-icon-theme|PKi|5.5.0 vscode-css-peek|pra|4.4.1 code-spell-checker|str|3.0.1 svelte-vscode|sve|108.5.4 JavaScriptSnippets|xab|1.8.0 city-lights-icon-vsc|Yum|1.1.3 (1 theme extensions excluded)

A/B Experiments

``` vsliv368cf:30146710 vspor879:30202332 vspor708:30202333 vspor363:30204092 vscod805:30301674 binariesv615:30325510 vsaa593:30376534 py29gd2263:31024239 c4g48928:30535728 azure-dev_surveyone:30548225 a9j8j154:30646983 962ge761:30959799 pythongtdpath:30769146 welcomedialog:30910333 pythonnoceb:30805159 asynctok:30898717 pythonregdiag2:30936856 pythonmypyd1:30879173 h48ei257:31000450 pythontbext0:30879054 accentitlementst:30995554 dsvsc016:30899300 dsvsc017:30899301 dsvsc018:30899302 cppperfnew:31000557 dsvsc020:30976470 pythonait:31006305 chatpanelt:31048053 dsvsc021:30996838 9c06g630:31013171 pythoncenvpt:31062603 a69g1124:31058053 dvdeprecation:31068756 dwnewjupyter:31046869 legacy_priority:31094926 pythonrstrctxt:31093869 0c838689:31092287 ```

[JayaSurya-27]

@deepak1556 I am also experiencing the same issue , any fix ?

[jonathanbodart]

Experiencing the same, specifically after installing the Copilot extension at my end

[mh-saeed]

I'm also experiencing same issue in my MacBook Pro (M2 Pro)!