Which VS Code plugin uses so much of my Windows PC memory?

Also helpful when debugging VS Code extensions…

Want to check on a plugin memory consumption? Follow these steps:

Shift + Ctrl + Esc will bring up your Task Manager.

Add missing column “Command Line” by right clicking on any column title and then on “Select columns”:

Select “Command line”:

That will yield this information — what executable was run and with what parameters too:

One VS Code instance running

In this example you can clearly see that I’m using:

• Angular language service angular.ng-template-0.900.17\server ~100MB
• Typescript server tsServer.js (2 instances) ~89MB and ~26MB
• ES Lint esLintServer.js ~7MB
• TS Lint tslintServer.js ~39MB
• others (JSON language service, GPU process, etc.)

This might also help with debugging — you can clearly see which process id you need to debug:

Running VS Code’s debug Attach by Process ID.

We can attach to the process by its id provided we know it.

Thanks for reading 😁