Vscode: rg process taking up all my CPU

[samoclay]

• VSCode Version: 1.45.1
• OS Version: MacOS Catalina 10.15.4

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Install VScode
2. Install Node

Wasn't sure where to put this

Something is taking up all my CPU through a process called rg

I ran a sample of the process here

which appears to mention
/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/node_modules.asar.unpacked/vscode-ripgrep/bin/rg

So not sure how I can debug this further.

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• File search is not working and rg process eats up CPU (#95336)
  

[roblourens]

This is used by search, so either you triggered a text search or file search in vscode, or an extension did, and it's taking an extremely long time to complete. Do any tips in here help? https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Search-Issues#slow-search-rg-running-for-a-long-time-or-consuming-lots-of-cpumemory

[rxmarbles]

I too am experiencing this same issue on a mac os running catalina 10.15.5 where i will find 3 - 4 rg processes running high CPU usage and draining the battery. This is on VS Code version 1.45.1

[saifeiLee]

Same here. rg process takes 100% cpu.
Osx 10.15.5
VScode: 1.45.1

[rxmarbles]

Just to provide an update here I did disable "search.followSymlinks": false as per the doc above this seemed to have relieved my issue with long running rg processes. However I would like to point out with monorepos becoming more popular especially with lerna, should probably look to improving this process in the editor in future iterations.

[a37h]

"search.followSymlinks": false solved my issue too, thx

[alicederyn]

Same issue, same fix.

[bnaydenov]

I can confirm, same issue and same solutions work