Runaway FileWatch host-event loop freezes TUI and grows debug log to 13 GB
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Describe the bug
A long-running/resumed Copilot CLI session can enter a tight loop that emits:
[DEBUG] [rust:copilot_runtime::protocol::jsonrpc::engine] No connection accepted a host event {"kind":"FileWatch"}
Once the loop becomes continuous, the terminal UI stops responding while the
process consumes about two CPU cores and writes hundreds of KB/s to its debug
log.
In the affected process:
- The final 10,000 log records were all the identical discarded
FileWatch
event. - Current CPU measured over five seconds was approximately 200%.
- RSS was approximately 1.1 GB.
- The process log had reached 13 GB and was growing at approximately 460 KB/s.
- The process remained alive; this was not an OS OOM kill or terminal flow
control pause. - The host had ample free memory, disk space, and inodes.
USE_TGREP=falsewas already effective. Startup telemetry contained
disabled_reason: "use_tgrep_false", and no tgrep child was running.
This appears related to IDE integration, but I cannot yet prove that opening
VS Code is the sole trigger. The affected session logged IDE lock-file watcher
startup and was running in a workspace open in VS Code. Disabling IDE
auto-connect prevented IDE discovery and the continuing event storm in a
controlled fresh-session test.
This differs from #3701: there was no repeated MCP server spawning or leaked
MCP process tree. The runaway activity was inside the Copilot process's
FileWatch/JSON-RPC event path.
Affected version
GitHub Copilot CLI 1.0.81-9
The no-IDE control test was also run after auto-update installed 1.0.81-11.
Steps to reproduce the behavior
The exact transition into the continuous loop is not yet deterministic, but
this is the observed setup:
- Open a large multi-repository workspace in VS Code.
- Start Copilot CLI from that workspace root with debug logging enabled.
- Resume and continue using a long-lived session.
- Leave IDE auto-connect enabled (the default).
- The session eventually becomes unresponsive while its log continuously
prints the discardedFileWatchevent shown above.
Useful checks while the failure is active:
ps -p <pid> -o pid,pcpu,pmem,rss,nlwp,stat,wchan,cmd
tail -n 10000 ~/.copilot/logs/process-*.log |
sed -E 's/^[0-9TZ:.-]+ \[[A-Z]+\] \[[^]]+\] //' |
sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head
The affected process showed:
10000 No connection accepted a host event {"kind":"FileWatch"}
Controlled comparison
I configured:
{
"ide": {
"autoConnect": false
}
}
Then started a fresh CLI session from the same workspace while VS Code remained
open. In that session:
- There were no IDE lock watcher, IDE discovery, or
ide_connectedrecords. - The process had no inotify watch on
~/.copilot/ide. - Only five
FileWatchrecords appeared during startup. - Log growth then stopped, current CPU dropped to approximately 1%, and the TUI
remained responsive.
For comparison, using the invalid dotted JSON key
"ide.autoConnect": false produced a settings warning, started the IDE lock
watcher, detected VS Code, and connected to the IDE. The nested object shown
above is required.
Expected behavior
- FileWatch events should be consumed, coalesced, debounced, or dropped without
entering an unbounded CPU/logging loop. - A disconnected/uninterested host-event consumer should not cause every
filesystem event to be logged indefinitely. - IDE lock-file activity should not starve terminal input or rendering.
- Debug logging should be rate-limited for repeated identical events.
Additional context
- OS: WSL2 Linux
6.6.87.2-microsoft-standard-WSL2 - Architecture: ARM64
- Terminal: VS Code integrated terminal
- Workspace root contained multiple repositories.
- Session indexing reported
SESSION_INDEXING=true. - tgrep was disabled with
USE_TGREP=false. - The affected process had two inotify descriptors resolving to the resumed
session's own~/.copilot/session-state/<session>/andresearch/
directories. The firstFileWatchrecords also appeared before the log line
that started the IDE lock-file watcher, so IDE auto-connect may be an
amplifier or trigger rather than the underlying event source. - Another session from the same environment previously accumulated a 2 GB log
and approximately 4 GB RSS with large bursts of the same FileWatch message,
but later became idle instead of remaining in the tight loop.
Workaround:
{
"ide": {
"autoConnect": false
}
}
Restart Copilot CLI after applying the setting. Manual /ide connection
remains available.
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调研方向
首先,沿着 FileWatch 主机事件路径,跟踪 runtime 的 JSON-RPC 处理和 IDE 自动连接流程;该 issue 没有指定具体的源文件或测试。使用提供的 workspace 和 autoConnect 设置,通过调试日志进行复现,然后验证反复丢弃的事件不再导致 TUI 冻结,也不再导致 CPU 使用量和日志无限增长。
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- 技术栈
- linux, shell, vscode
- 领域
- cli, performance
- Issue 类型
- 缺陷
- 难度
- 5/5
- 预计耗时
- 一周以上
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- 活跃
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- 32/100