Computer Getting Wrecked: 41 `nomicfoundation.hardhat-solidity-0.7.3` Workers Persist After VSCode is Closed

[amarpatel]

I had 1 instance of VSCode running with 2 windows open, then I cmd+q'd both to quit VSCode. In Activity Monitor, it continued to show Code Helper processes running:

Using ps aux | grep {PID} I identified which extensions continued to run, and the count of duplicate processes:

NOTE: The other lines isolate the extension path and remove the PID from the results

This is the second time this has happened this week. On Monday (4 days ago), I captured this process while VSCode was running:

Computer specs:

• Apple MBP 16" 2021
• M1 Max
• 64GB memory
• Ventura 13.5.2

VSCode:

Version: 1.83.1
Commit: f1b07bd25dfad64b0167beb15359ae573aecd2cc
Date: 2023-10-10T23:57:32.750Z (2 wks ago)

[kanej]

Hey @amarpatel is the repo you were running in open source, to help me reproduce?

Does this happen every time you open the workspace and quit? Or is it intermittent?

[kanej]

Closing as we have had no further reports. We will reopen if we get more information.