Please provide Operating system: macOS Monterey 12.2 IDE name and flavor/env: VSCode Version: 1.65.2 (Universal) SonarLint plugin version: 3.3.3 Is connected mode used: Connected to SonarCloud or SonarQube (and which version): Connected to sonarlint.connectedMode.connections.sonarcloud hosted on h…

SonarOutput.txt (7.2 KB) Here is the sonar output from his VS code window with the process running high Also here is the process explorer: [VSCodeProcessExplorer] Note that he tried Java 17 and just now he said it seems better, but another one of my coworkers with the issue said Java 17 did not…

Hi @arobinson First of all, thanks for taking the time to report the issue(s). There are two (likely) separate issues: Orphaned Java processes (sonarlint-ls.jar). We are aware of the issue, and even experiencing it randomly on our side. Here is the ticket I just created to allow you to follow t…

[image] Julien_HENRY: High CPU usage. This one is more tricky for us to investigate without at least a thread dump. That’s where we need your help, especially if you have a setup where you can reproduce consistently. Please see the different methods to collect a thread dump , and when the CPU spi…

Here is a stack dump of a runaway process (1100% CPU utilization in this case) threaddump.txt (78.5 KB)

Here is another dump from a different user threaddump (1).txt (59.7 KB)

Hello Andrew, Thanks for those dumps, I already identified a problem on our side. A couple of questions: are you all trying to open the same project in VSCode ? are you opening a single folder or a workspace containing several folders ? are you working on a big Git repository ? For example with a…

Update: we recently changed the section of code that seems to be causing this CPU problem, could you give a try with this artifact please ? You can find how to install it here .

Sorry, didn’t get to my email last few days. Just let my co-workers know and will report back. Thank you so much for the quick attention.

Hey, I have the same issue (both of them, actually) and this new artifacts really does help in my case. As soon as I switch to latest stable version, issue re-appars. I just have to rapidly switch between files and java process would basically explode. This does not happen with provided version of…

One of my co-workers that had the problem said it went away with the downloaded version.

Orphaned processes and high CPU utilization with VS code and SonarLint extension

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