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by jltsiren 4 days ago
The default VSCode configuration can cause problems in HPC clusters. VSCode likes to crawl the files it can see repeatedly. If you have a few users, it doesn't matter. But with many concurrent users and many files, it can destroy file system performance.
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Most clusters I use are architected assuming you use vim and look at graphics locally. I do. I also use img-cat. I've never liked VSCode anything.
Every user should get their own vscode endpoint, on a severely underprovisioned VM with 10mb/sec access to the cluster filesystem.