VSC slowdowns after recent update
I'm not exactly sure what is going on and i'm not sure how to properly debug it, but after recent update of something (doubt that it's any of my extensions, most of them update one few months, probably vsc itself) i started randomly seeing VSC getting hang up on something, so a few symptoms:
Everything seems to freeze for a 5-10 seconds and i cant:
- search components using ctrl + p
- source control window shows a horizontal loader and also unresponsive
- codex extension doesnt let me send a message
- in the bottom right i see 'getting code actions' usually it's eslint, but i tried disabling it and still got the same message, just for a different extension
Version: 1.120.0 (user setup)
Commit: 0958016b2af9f09bb4257e0df4a95e2f90590f9f
Date: 2026-05-12T20:17:22Z
Electron: 39.8.8
ElectronBuildId: 13870025
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.1
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200
I'm working inside WSL on windows
I suspect that it's happening because of recent update, it happened 2 days ago and this problem i'm getting started appearing also 2 days ago, but i'm not sure how can i prove (at least for myself for peace of mind) that this is happening because of update
Is there a way to rollback to previous version?
UPD: just to add some more info
- when this happens, in process explorer inside VSC i don't see any CPU/MEMORY usage spikes
- i'm not in any way blocked by speed of my computer, my CPU in that moment is loaded at about 30% and none of the cores are maxed out ('1st' core is hovering roughly at 60% usage), memory is also not maxed out, only using 22+-/32GB, i also just in case limited memory of WSL to 12GB, this didnt change things much
- i'm working inside nodejs/nextjs/typescript project with those plugins
Extensions installed on WSL: Ubuntu:
adpyke.codesnap
anseki.vscode-color
bierner.github-markdown-preview
bierner.markdown-checkbox
bierner.markdown-emoji
bierner.markdown-footnotes
bierner.markdown-mermaid
bierner.markdown-preview-github-styles
bierner.markdown-yaml-preamble
clinyong.vscode-css-modules
dbaeumer.vscode-eslint
donjayamanne.githistory
eamodio.gitlens
esbenp.prettier-vscode
fuzionix.file-tree-extractor
gruntfuggly.todo-tree
kisstkondoros.typelens
ms-azuretools.vscode-containers
ms-azuretools.vscode-docker
openai.chatgpt
redhat.vscode-xml
samxchen.ts-viewer-extension
sibiraj-s.vscode-scss-formatter
streetsidesoftware.code-spell-checker
stylelint.vscode-stylelint