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Preventing Visual Studio Code overloading the login nodes
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Avoid filewatcher and file searcher to pay attention to directories with large number of files
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.
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Note that we are explicitly telling VS Code not to watch or search in directories named as indicated nor in the whole /scratch file system. And, if you know of some other directory in your files that contain a large number of files and on which you really don't need VS Code to pay attention to its contents and changes, then it is highly recommended to add its name within the settings as "**/knownDirectoryWithLotsOfFiles/**".
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Disable TypeScript and JavaScript Language Services
It's also important to disable the TypeScript and JavaScript Language Services.
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