Why does VS Code require so much memory? How can I make it run more memory-efficiently?

Question

Does anyone know how to make VS Code use less memory?

It´s taking more than 2gb, sometimes more than 3 gigabytes to have some 8 files opened.

Answer 1

You could prevent vscode from watching folders with really many files in you project by adding this to your json settings file

"files.watcherExclude": {
    "**/.git/objects/**": true,
    "**/node_modules/**": true
}