Extension causes high cpu load #1074
Description
- Issue Type:
Performance - Extension Name:
debugpy - Extension Version:
2026.6.0 - OS Version:
Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200 - VS Code version:
1.130.0
Summary
Significant performance bottlenecks and extreme CPU utilization are experienced while working in a large codebase. I checked my running extension and found that this extension is unresponsive
- Attached CPU profile documenting the high resource usage event:
Activity
rchiodo commentedon Jul 27, 2026
I'm not sure why it's attributing any of that to the debugger. It's only using 27ms