vscode consumes all memory and swap area and freezes the system

[osocure]

vscode works from a few minutes to an hour and then freezes and freezes the operating system. It consumes all ram memory and the swap area begins to fill up until the computer no longer responds. The s.o. is Linux mint 19 and the vscode version is from the repository.

VSCode Version: 1.41.1 OS Version: Linux Mint 19

VSCode

Version: 1.41.1 Commit: 26076a4de974ead31f97692a0d32f90d735645c0 Date: 2019-12-18T15:04:31.999Z Electron: 6.1.5 Chrome: 76.0.3809.146 Node.js: 12.4.0 V8: 7.6.303.31-electron.0 OS: Linux x64 4.15.0-66-generic

[bpasero]

To find out more about this issue, we need to get at the process that is causing the high load. VS Code creates multiple processes, each with different tasks.

When Code is consuming lots of CPU, please run "code --status" from the command line (or "code-insiders --status" if you are using VS Code Insiders edition).

Please attach the output of this command to this issue. Thanks!

[vscodebot[bot]]

This issue has been closed automatically because it needs more information and has not had recent activity. See also our issue reporting guidelines.

Happy Coding!

[rajinder-yadav]

This is also happening to me now, it has happened 3 times is the past two days.

The trigger seem to be predictive lookup as you're trying. I have been keeping my system monitor up to view memory usage and I continue to see large spikes of memory getting allocated by vscode.

This needs to be fixed.

The memory spike happens within one second (32GB), at which time the entire system is frozen and you can't do anything. So asking us to provide further info is not possible.

[rajinder-yadav]

Some addition info on code-insiders

• I am using openSUSE Tumbleweed Linux:

VS Code version: Code - Insiders 1.42.0-insider (9e8c4c247a779cdd1f4f53db963bc6124a28ac2f, 2020-01-30T08:43:06.481Z) OS version: Linux x64 5.4.14-1-default

System Info

|Item|Value| |---|---| |CPUs|AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core Processor (16 x 3720)| |GPU Status|2d_canvas: enabled
flash_3d: enabled
flash_stage3d: enabled
flash_stage3d_baseline: enabled
gpu_compositing: enabled
metal: disabled_off
multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on
oop_rasterization: disabled_off
protected_video_decode: unavailable_off
rasterization: disabled_software
skia_renderer: disabled_off
surface_control: disabled_off
surface_synchronization: enabled_on
video_decode: unavailable_off
viz_display_compositor: enabled_on
viz_hit_test_surface_layer: disabled_off
webgl: enabled
webgl2: enabled| |Load (avg)|2, 3, 2| |Memory (System)|31.30GB (28.03GB free)| |Process Argv|. --no-sandbox| |Screen Reader|no| |VM|0%|

Extensions (27)

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[rajinder-yadav]

OK this seems to be just happening randomly, don't know what's causing this! I was just moving the edit cursor this time and this bug froze my system.