Slow, laggy

Type: Performance Issue

Title explains.

I cannot scroll my code without a huge lag. Loading files is slow.

VS Code version: Code 1.128.1 (5264f2156cbcd7aea5fd004d29eaa10209155d66, 2026-07-14T07:19:31-07:00)
OS version: Darwin x64 22.5.0
Modes:

System Info

|Item|Value|
|---|---|
|CPUs|Apple M1 Pro (10 x 2400)|
|GPU Status|2d_canvas: enabled
GPU0: VENDOR= 0x106b [Google Inc. (Apple)], DEVICE=0x0000 [ANGLE (Apple, ANGLE Metal Renderer: Apple M1 Pro, Version 13.4.1 (c) (Build 22F770820d))], DRIVER_VENDOR=Apple, DRIVER_VERSION=13.4.1 *ACTIVE*
Machine model name: MacBookPro
Machine model version: 18.1
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: enabled_on
trees_in_viz: disabled_off
video_decode: enabled
video_encode: enabled
webgl: enabled
webgpu: enabled
webnn: disabled_off|
|Load (avg)|2, 2, 2|
|Memory (System)|16.00GB (0.02GB free)|
|Process Argv|--crash-reporter-id c62c211f-4cbe-48f4-a15c-ecd4a389f206|
|Screen Reader|no|
|VM|0%|

Process Info

```
CPU % Mem MB PID Process
19 36591746972 2892 code
2 14073748836 2904 gpu-process
0 5629499534 2906 utility-network-service
101 90071992547 2912 window [1] (index.html — dev)
81 28147497671 2936 shared-process
0 0 3249 /bin/ps -ax -o pid=,ppid=,pcpu=,pmem=,command=
0 11258999068 2937 file-watcher [1]
4 64739244643 2962 extension-host [1]
0 22517998137 2967 /Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Frameworks/Code Helper (Plugin).app/Contents/MacOS/Code Helper (Plugin) /Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/html-language-features/server/dist/node/htmlServerMain --node-ipc --clientProcessId=2962
0 14073748836 3188 /Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Frameworks/Code Helper (Plugin).app/Contents/MacOS/Code Helper (Plugin) /Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/json-language-features/server/dist/node/jsonServerMain --node-ipc --clientProcessId=2962
```

Workspace Info

```
| Window (index.html — dev)
| Folder (dev): 541 files
| File types: scss(143) jpg(138) js(131) png(50) css(21) gif(14)
| DS_Store(12) svg(10) html(7) txt(2) other(13)
| Conf files:;
```

Extensions (3)

Name|Identifier|Author|Version
---|---|---|---
EditorConfig|editorconfig.editorconfig|EditorConfig|0.18.2
Dev Containers|ms-vscode-remote.remote-containers|ms-vscode-remote|0.463.0
PowerShell|ms-vscode.powershell|ms-vscode|2025.4.0

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