Older, wiser, neckbeards warned me when I switched to VS Code last year that this would happen to me at the worst possible moment, but it finally has: even with all extensions disabled, VS Code is now so laggy on my computer that I literally have to stop and wait for it to render each word I type. Talking >200ms per character.

How do I fix this if it's not an extension causing it?

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Michael Eaton

@searls When you say all extensions are disabled, did you do that manually, or did you start code with --disable-extensions?

I've not seen that behavior at all. I use VSCode on Mac and Windows pretty heavily, and even with my extensions loaded, I don't see any lag.

Horrible suggestion, but have you tried a clean install?

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Will Jessop

@searls Oddly that's not happening for me. Are you running the rosetta version, or the arm version? Have you rebooted recently?

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Paul Rosen

@searls That's happened occasionally to me. Closing and reopening solved it. The mouse stayed responsive, but the keyboard would pause a few seconds.

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David Brownman

@searls I've used it daily for years and never seen that- it sounds like something else is up.

If you file a GH issue, they may have pointers to diagnostic tooling which might clear things up. Or you can record a video and file the bug, which also might help!

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Kevin McFadden

@searls I've noticed this with GitHub copilot lagging in the past but not recently.

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Dane Harrigan

@searls is something using all your memory and you’re reading from swap?

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