VS Code On Apple M1 Pro Is Painfully Slow When Searching Files With Command + P

Question

I am running VS Code 1.70.2 and have been using the SSH Remote extension to connect to a local Linux server's codebase. For years the Command + P file-search functionality was lighting-quick and was a very handy tool in large codebases, but in the last 2 weeks, the functionality has ground to a halt, taking upwards of 9 seconds to perform a file-search.

I have disabled all extensions (except Remote - SSH, of course), I have tried multiple versions of VS Code (including the latest "nightly" version), I have restarted the remote server, I have measured the speed between the two hosts, which is roughly 700MB/s, I have deleted the .vscode-server directory on the remote server, and I have created a brand-new project in the same folder.

I have also added very-liberal globs to the "Search - Exclude" settings to see if packages/vendor libraries were the issue, and still no performance improvement. Only when I try to manipulate a local codebase does the file-search functionality work at an acceptable speed.

I have run out of things to try. Am I doomed to deal with excessively-slow file searching, or is there another place to try and debug this issue?

Thanks!

Answer 1

This worked for me try it out. Add this to User settings. Ctrl+Shift+P(Windows) / Cmd+Shift+P(OSX) Open user settings in JSON

"search.exclude": {
  "**/.*": true,
  "**/.gitignore": true
},
"search.followSymlinks": false,
    "files.exclude": {
 "**/.*": true
    
}