Solve VSCode taking high CPU time on Mac Mini.
I was the main web front-end engineer responsible for developing and maintaining the customer-facing platform for WisdomHall (品學堂) in 2024 Q3 Q4, code reviewed by CTO and a senior engineer. http://learning.wisdomhall.com.tw has total active 257k users, according to their Facebook post: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1MnjbwZxCV/ My tech stack includes JavaScript, Vue 2, Nuxt 2, git, and Docker.
Turn off settings-sync extension.
ref.:
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/148226#issuecomment-1181446548
I confirmed that the settings-sync extension was causing the problem, and it was resolved by turning off the extension.
High extenstionHost CPU usage when Settings Sync is enabled shanalikhan/code-settings-sync#1361
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Shan.code-settings-sync&ssr=false#review-details