The issue appears to be that the file watcher goes out of control.

The reproduction is very simple:

mkdir mytest
cd mytest
seq 1000000 | xargs touch
code --disable-extensions .

and now the editor GUI hangs and Ubuntu shows a popup:

The window is not responding

htop reveals a bunch of processes or threads of type:

/snap/code/194/usr/share/code/code

Infinite duplicate pool:

vscode bug

Persistent undo history:

vscode Vim

It is especially bad on large projects, unless you carefully whitelist only the small source directories:

Having multiple windows is generally the only sane way to manage multiple projects. So how to reopen then after you:

restart the OS or logout?
close all window in some other way? It can't be by closing them one by one of course, or else only the last remains. Not sure such way exists.

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