Orphaned .vscode-server/data/User/workspaceStorage folder

[jmbraben]

Type: Bug

It is unclear when/how this happens (that is most of the problem).
We have many developers using vscode remotely on developement servers, and we are continually seeing what appears to be "orphaned" cache folders. We can tolerate the 3~4Gb for ms-vscode.cpptools, but not when this gets multiplied by many orphaned copies...in the below user's case, we have 8x copies (7x appear to be abandoned). This happened over a period of 2x months (multiply this by 20x developers and longer period of time and you can see this is completely unmanageable).

• Under what conditions does vscode abandon these cache folders? Are the conditions known?
• Why does vscode not clean up unused cache folders?

...a du -h -d 1 on .vscode-server/data/User/workspaceStorage yields

3.2G .vscode-server/data/User/workspaceStorage/6d15a92db9aaac284f71f7736073f359-1/ms-vscode.cpptools
3.2G .vscode-server/data/User/workspaceStorage/6d15a92db9aaac284f71f7736073f359/ms-vscode.cpptools
2.6G .vscode-server/data/User/workspaceStorage/83925440bff307a389af34f8301cfd5c-1/ms-vscode.cpptools
2.6G .vscode-server/data/User/workspaceStorage/83925440bff307a389af34f8301cfd5c/ms-vscode.cpptools
3.1G .vscode-server/data/User/workspaceStorage/e600ecbfa6d5aba7d8d762492e13a6f9-1/ms-vscode.cpptools
4.5G .vscode-server/data/User/workspaceStorage/e600ecbfa6d5aba7d8d762492e13a6f9/ms-vscode.cpptools
3.8G .vscode-server/data/User/workspaceStorage/ed73aeb16a45f608920b44007cac3c25/ms-vscode.cpptools
26G    .vscode-server/data/User/workspaceStorage

synworker@RTPFLEXBUILD2:~$ ls -la .vscode-server/data/User/workspaceStorage
drwxr-xr-x 1 reaadmin reaadmin 36 Apr 3 19:29 2251e3c6f476e634f88dd51ab1c70040
drwxr-xr-x 1 reaadmin reaadmin 0 Mar 27 22:59 2251e3c6f476e634f88dd51ab1c70040-1
drwxr-xr-x 1 reaadmin reaadmin 58 Apr 3 20:46 6d15a92db9aaac284f71f7736073f359
drwxr-xr-x 1 reaadmin reaadmin 36 Mar 27 22:59 6d15a92db9aaac284f71f7736073f359-1
drwxr-xr-x 1 reaadmin reaadmin 36 Apr 19 15:28 83925440bff307a389af34f8301cfd5c
drwxr-xr-x 1 reaadmin reaadmin 58 Apr 5 17:40 83925440bff307a389af34f8301cfd5c-1
drwxr-xr-x 1 reaadmin reaadmin 58 May 30 21:39 e600ecbfa6d5aba7d8d762492e13a6f9
drwxr-xr-x 1 reaadmin reaadmin 36 May 9 19:05 e600ecbfa6d5aba7d8d762492e13a6f9-1
drwxr-xr-x 1 reaadmin reaadmin 36 May 10 17:25 ed73aeb16a45f608920b44007cac3c25

VS Code version: Code 1.78.2 (b3e4e68, 2023-05-10T14:47:05.613Z)
OS version: Linux x64 5.19.0-41-generic
Modes:
Sandboxed: Yes
Remote OS version: Linux x64 5.15.0-71-generic

System Info

Item	Value
CPUs	AMD Ryzen 5 5600G with Radeon Graphics (12 x 3936)
GPU Status	2d_canvas: enabled canvas_oop_rasterization: disabled_off 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 video_decode: enabled video_encode: disabled_software vulkan: disabled_off webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled webgpu: disabled_off
Load (avg)	1, 0, 0
Memory (System)	62.18GB (43.68GB free)
Process Argv	--unity-launch --crash-reporter-id 7227b282-ec2c-4b6b-a1ad-188983cc9ca0
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%
DESKTOP_SESSION	ubuntu
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP	Unity
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP	ubuntu
XDG_SESSION_TYPE	x11

Item	Value
Remote	Coder: jonbrabender∕dev-0526
OS	Linux x64 5.15.0-71-generic
CPUs	AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core Processor (24 x 2200)
Memory (System)	62.70GB (17.56GB free)
VM	0%

Extensions (12)

Extension	Author (truncated)	Version
better-comments	aar	3.0.2
coder-remote	cod	0.1.18
debug-tracker-vscode	mcu	0.0.15
jupyter-keymap	ms-	1.1.0
remote-containers	ms-	0.292.0
remote-ssh	ms-	0.102.0
remote-ssh-edit	ms-	0.86.0
remote-wsl	ms-	0.78.8
vscode-remote-extensionpack	ms-	0.24.0
remote-explorer	ms-	0.4.0
remote-server	ms-	1.1.0
linkerscript	Zix	1.0.3

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[bpasero]

/duplicate #32461

[vscodenpa]

Thanks for creating this issue! We figured it's covering the same as another one we already have. Thus, we closed this one as a duplicate. You can search for similar existing issues. See also our issue reporting guidelines.

Happy Coding!