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Support "Developer: Open Process Explorer"

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript, vscode
Domain
devtools

Research direction

Start by comparing the existing code-server UI with VS Code's "Developer: Open Process Explorer" command and determine whether the command can inspect the remote code-server process tree. Define the remote process data and UI integration needed; done means the command is available from code-server and displays the relevant process hierarchy.

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Description

enhancement

What is your suggestion?

Add something that can be used directly from the code-server UI to inspect the process tree under the remote code-server process. Ideally literally "Developer: Open Process Explorer" from VS code.

Why do you want this feature?

Helpful to understand where memory is going - both from the angle of diagnosing processes spawned in extensions and taking stock of various user-spawned processes.

Are there any workarounds to get this functionality today?

Sort of - you can manually figure out the same type of information from the OS.

Are you interested in submitting a PR for this?

Yes, but would need some pointers. If this just isn't possible, that's OK and fine to close this issue 😄

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