Huge battery drain

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Type: Performance Issue

I'm using VS Code (Apple Silicon Version) on my MacBook Pro M1. After just 15 minutes of light use, Activity Monitor reports a "12h battery usage" of 28%.

VS Code version: Code 1.93.1 (Universal) (38c31bc, 2024-09-11T17:20:05.685Z)
OS version: Darwin arm64 22.6.0
Modes:

System Info

Item	Value
CPUs	Apple M1 (8 x 2400)
GPU Status	2d_canvas: enabled canvas_oop_rasterization: enabled_on direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok gpu_compositing: enabled multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on opengl: enabled_on rasterization: enabled raw_draw: disabled_off_ok skia_graphite: disabled_off video_decode: enabled video_encode: enabled webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled webgpu: enabled webnn: disabled_off
Load (avg)	2, 2, 2
Memory (System)	8.00GB (0.07GB free)
Process Argv	--crash-reporter-id 4f8b7f53-3f9a-4194-8499-a9c8e5c2cdb5
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%

Process Info

CPU %	Mem MB	   PID	Process
   17	   139	 87493	code main
    0	    49	 87503	   gpu-process
    0	    16	 87504	   utility-network-service
    0	   319	 87516	window [1] (DAQFile.cc — readWDpp)
    2	    74	 87582	shared-process
    0	     0	 90360	     /bin/ps -ax -o pid=,ppid=,pcpu=,pmem=,command=
    0	    25	 87712	fileWatcher [1]
    0	    74	 88168	extensionHost [1]
    0	    25	 88179	     /private/var/folders/55/9mynrfs93j3flc0vwk96__gm0000gn/T/AppTranslocation/07BDE6DA-6528-4564-92E6-D6374D5FDA3C/d/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Frameworks/Code Helper (Plugin).app/Contents/MacOS/Code Helper (Plugin) /private/var/folders/55/9mynrfs93j3flc0vwk96__gm0000gn/T/AppTranslocation/07BDE6DA-6528-4564-92E6-D6374D5FDA3C/d/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/json-language-features/server/dist/node/jsonServerMain --node-ipc --clientProcessId=88168
    0	     8	 88183	     /Users/matteobrini/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode.cpptools-1.22.7-darwin-arm64/bin/cpptools

Workspace Info

|  Window (DAQFile.cc — readWDpp)
|    Folder (readWDpp): 282 files
|      File types: js(70) html(54) png(50) svg(16) cc(11) cmake(6) bin(6)
|                  dat(5) json(4) txt(4)
|      Conf files: cmake(6) github-actions(1) launch.json(1) settings.json(1)
|                  tasks.json(1)
|      Launch Configs: cppdbg lldb-vscode;

Extensions (30)

Extension	Author (truncated)	Version
Doxygen	bbe	1.0.0
doxdocgen	csc	1.4.0
macos-modern-theme	dav	2.3.19
copilot	Git	1.235.0
copilot-chat	Git	0.20.3
latex-workshop	Jam	10.4.2
language-julia	jul	1.124.2
git-graph	mhu	1.30.0
vscode-language-pack-it	MS-	1.93.2024091109
debugpy	ms-	2024.10.0
python	ms-	2024.14.1
vscode-pylance	ms-	2024.9.2
jupyter	ms-	2024.8.1
jupyter-keymap	ms-	1.1.2
jupyter-renderers	ms-	1.0.19
vscode-jupyter-cell-tags	ms-	0.1.9
vscode-jupyter-slideshow	ms-	0.1.6
remote-ssh	ms-	0.114.3
remote-ssh-edit	ms-	0.87.0
remote-wsl	ms-	0.88.4
vscode-remote-extensionpack	ms-	0.25.0
cmake-tools	ms-	1.19.52
cpptools	ms-	1.22.7
cpptools-extension-pack	ms-	1.3.0
remote-explorer	ms-	0.4.3
remote-server	ms-	1.5.2
veriloghdl	msh	1.15.1
material-icon-theme	PKi	5.11.1
cmake	twx	0.0.17
markdown-all-in-one	yzh	3.6.2

(2 theme extensions excluded)

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