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by int_19h 489 days ago
Depending on what they're doing, it could easily be multiple Gb per user. When you do VSCode remoting, pretty much everything but the UI is running on the server. This includes stuff like code analysis for autocompletion, which - especially for languages that require type inference to provide useful completions - can consume a lot of RAM, and a fair bit of CPU.