by Ciro Santilli (@cirosantilli, 37)
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

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