Description
Current Behavior
For a while we have been having issues with high memory usage. I thought the reason of this might be the number of linting-issues we have in our codebase. Or maybe some wrong configuration. We sometimes had a spinner appear, especiialy when copying and pasting code (even single line code). The small spinner appears at the textcursor in the code-window.
A month ago we also noticed error messages about "file watcher count too low" when starting our mock-app, which indeed uses watchers. But never before we'd seen these error messages before. Our workaround is to close VSCode and do wsl --shutdown. This so we could continue working.
And also we started to notice that the disk would quickly fill up.
We noticed dump files being created in the folder: C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Temp\wsl-crashes. Sometimes the dump files have a size of 4gb. Although this time this snapshot the dmp files were quite small:
I also noticed this out-of-memory notice running dmesg:
Expected Behavior
We would not expect our workspace to cause these kinds of problems
Steps to Reproduce
I'm unable to provide a description of steps how to trigger the issue. It happens after a while.
Failure Logs / Images / Videos
When running htop i saw high memory usage:
I check the limit:
Especially this snapshot makes me think of NX causing the high file watcher count errors. On the left you see that i retrieved a list of the pids with the number of watchers. On the right you can see the processes. Most of them are vscode/nx related:
Environment
Windows 11, wslg
NX Report complete - copy this into the issue template
Node : 22.13.0
OS : linux-x64
Native Target : x86_64-linux
npm : 10.9.2
nx : 20.4.4
@nx/js : 20.4.4
@nx/jest : 20.4.4
@nx/eslint : 20.4.4
@nx/workspace : 20.4.4
@nx/angular : 20.4.4
@nx/cypress : 20.4.4
@nx/devkit : 20.4.4
@nx/eslint-plugin : 20.4.4
@nx/express : 20.4.4
@nx/module-federation : 20.4.4
@nx/node : 20.4.4
@nx/plugin : 20.4.4
@nx/storybook : 20.4.4
@nx/web : 20.4.4
@nx/webpack : 20.4.4
typescript : 5.7.3
Nx Powerpack
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Registered Plugins:
nx-stylelint/plugin
@nx/jest/plugin
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Community plugins:
@compodoc/compodoc : 1.1.26
@ngrx/component-store : 19.0.1
@ngrx/effects : 19.0.1
@ngrx/entity : 19.0.1
@ngrx/eslint-plugin : 18.1.1
@ngrx/operators : 19.0.1
@ngrx/router-store : 19.0.1
@ngrx/schematics : 19.0.1
@ngrx/signals : 19.0.1
@ngrx/store : 19.0.1
@ngrx/store-devtools : 19.0.1
@spaceribs/nx-betterer : 5.0.0
@storybook/angular : 8.6.4
ng-mocks : 14.13.2
nx-stylelint : 18.0.0
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Local workspace plugins:
@athora-nx/storybook-test-runner
@athora-nx/static-server
@athora-nx/azuredevops
@athora-nx/chromatic
@athora-nx/workspace-plugin
@athora-nx/coverage
wsl image:
root@dtl2024-q2:~/AthoraNx# uname -r
5.15.167.4-microsoft-standard-WSL2
- Nx Console version:
18.44.2 - VSCode version:
Version: 1.98.2 (system setup)
Commit: ddc367ed5c8936efe395cffeec279b04ffd7db78
Date: 2025-03-12T13:32:45.399Z
Electron: 34.2.0
ElectronBuildId: 11161602
Chromium: 132.0.6834.196
Node.js: 20.18.2
V8: 13.2.152.36-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22631