CppTools extension burning CPU

[fedemartinezdev]

Has any body notice when opening VSCode the cpptools extension starts burning CPU like crazy?

Running htop shows CPU% 99.9 for a process running from ~/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode.cpptools-1.6.0/bin/cpptools

this is the VSCode version I am using

Version: 1.60.0
Commit: e7d7e9a9348e6a8cc8c03f877d39cb72e5dfb1ff
Date: 2021-09-01T10:43:02.136Z
Electron: 13.1.8
Chrome: 91.0.4472.164
Node.js: 14.16.0
V8: 9.1.269.39-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 5.11.0-34-generic

[bobbrow]

When you open a folder for the first time, there is a bit of indexing/parsing of source files that happens so that the language features work. The amount of time it takes depends on the size of your workspace, but you can track the progress by hovering over the database icon in the status bar. If that icon is gone and you continue to see 99% CPU, you should open a bug and we can start an investigation into what is wrong.

If you prefer the extension to not use the CPU aggressively, you can change the C_Cpp.workspaceParsingPriority setting.