VS Code high memory usage and slow performance

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Type: Performance Issue

After updating to the latest version, ram usage increased significantly, and VS Code becomes noticeably slow even with no extensions enabled.

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes

Tried:

• Disabling all extensions
• Fresh install VS Code

Version 1.100.3:

Version 1.101.0:

VS Code version: Code 1.101.0 (Universal) (https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/commit/dfaf44141ea9deb3b4096f7cd6d24e00c147a4b1, 2025-06-11T15:00:50.123Z) OS Version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22631 Modes:

System Info

Item	Value
CPUs	Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8265U CPU @ 1.60GHz (8 x 1800)
GPU Status	2d_canvas: enabled canvas_oop_rasterization: enabled_on direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok gpu_compositing: enabled multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on opengl: enabled_on rasterization: enabled raw_draw: disabled_off_ok skia_graphite: disabled_off video_decode: enabled video_encode: enabled webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled webgpu: enabled webnn: disabled_off
Load (avg)	undefined
Memory (System)	15.88GB (1.97GB free)
Process Argv	--disable-extensions --crash-reporter-id 3df3b9aa-bb50-4477-92bc-21a5139ee848
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%