When launching Visual Studio Code my OS is very slow

Question

Today in the morning, when I launched Visual Studio Code, my Debian 9 (Stretch) became very slow.

Then when I run code --disable-extensions in the terminal it worked normally.

How can I detect the package with the bug?

Answer 1

Please follow this guide for help tracking down which extension is causing performance issues.

To start, run code --status from the command line while Visual Studio Code is running. This will print out a list of all Visual Studio Code processes and their resource usage:

Once you track down the bad extension, please file an issue against them.