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Preventing Visual Studio Code overloading the login nodes

Part One:

The Visual Studio Code filewatcher and file searcher (rg) indexes all the files you have access to in your workspace. If you have a large dataset (e.g. machine learning) this can take a lot of resources on the login nodes. Please note that making some changes to your settings.json file on Setonix can prevent this issue. 

# Create the settings.json file

$ touch ~/.vscode-server/data/Machine/settings.json

# add the following information to settings.json with your favourite text editor

"files.watcherExclude": {
  "**/.git/objects/**": true,
  "**/.git/subtree-cache/**": true,     
  "**/node_modules/*/**": true,
  "/usr/local/**": true,
  "/scratch/**": true},

"search.followSymlinks": false,

"search.exclude": {     
  "**/.git/objects/**": true,
  "**/.git/subtree-cache/**": true,     
  "**/node_modules/*/**": true,
  "/usr/local/**": true,
  "/scratch/**": true},

Part Two:

It's also important to disable the TypeScript and JavaScript Language Services. 

1. Hit the extensions button in VS Code (which looks like building blocks on the left toolbar)
2. Search for ‘@builtin TypeScript’.
3. Disable the TypeScript and Javascript Language Features extension
4. Reload

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Related pages

• Connecting to a Supercomputer
• Login nodes policy

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