wakatime CLI being called multiple times and causing High CPU and Memory

[glennsarti]

The wakatime extension appears to be calling the API many times over and causing very high cpu usage and memory consumption

Using wakatime 7.0.2

[glennsarti]

VSCode info

[alanhamlett]

Switching back to legacy Python wakatime-cli in v8.0.0 until we can fix this.

[glennsarti]

Yeah...even if I call wakatime by itself... it just sits there :-(

C:\Users\glenn\.wakatime> c:\Users\glenn\.wakatime\wakatime-cli-windows-amd64.exe --entity c:\Source\oss\spike-go-ls\peslsp\server.go --plugin "\"vscode/1.55.2 vscode-wakatime/7.0.2\"" --alternate-project spike-go-ls --write --config C:\Users\glenn\.wakatime.cfg --log-file C:\Users\glenn\.wakatime.log --verbose --timeout 1

log file

{"caller":"/home/runner/work/wakatime-cli/wakatime-cli/cmd/legacy/run.go:94","func":"Run","level":"debug","message":"command: heartbeat","now":"2021-05-06T14:46:52+08:00","version":"v1.0.0"}
{"caller":"/home/runner/work/wakatime-cli/wakatime-cli/cmd/legacy/heartbeat/heartbeat.go:67","func":"SendHeartbeats","level":"debug","message":"heartbeat params: category: 'coding', cursor position: '', entity: 'c:\\Source\\oss\\spike-go-ls\\peslsp\\server.go', entity type: 'file', num extra heartbeats: 0, hostname: 'GLENNSARTI', is write: true, language: '', line number: '', lines in file: '', offline disabled: false, offline sync max: 100, time: 1620283612.33873, api params: (api key: '6710...', api url: 'https://api.wakatime.com/api', plugin: '\\', timeout: 1s), filter params: (exclude: '[]', exclude unknown project: false, include: '[]', include only with project file: false), network params: (disable ssl verify: false, proxy url: '', ssl cert filepath: ''), project params: (alternate: 'spike-go-ls', disable submodule: '[]', map patterns: '[]', override: ''), sanitize params: (hide branch names: '[]', hide file names: '[]', hide project names: '[]')","now":"2021-05-06T14:46:52+08:00","version":"v1.0.0"}

[glennsarti]

Not necessarily the extensions fault but 🤷‍♂️ that's where we see the problem

[alanhamlett]

It's better after upgrading to v8.0.0?

[glennsarti]

Trying now ....

[glennsarti]

Yup... I can see waka-time.exe start and quickly exit. Nothing hanging around.

[glennsarti]

Sorry I can't debug into why the new cli package is failing 😭

Unfortunately there doesn't appear to be anything to output debug information to STDOUT. Just a --verbose flag.

[alanhamlett]

It's ok, we'll get it figured out.

[alanhamlett]

@glennsarti can you add this to your ~/.wakatime.cfg file under [settings]:

legacy_python_cli = false
alpha = true

After adding those 2 lines, reload vscode and see if that fixes it for you?

[alanhamlett]

Fixed with #364 and released in v1.6.0.

[glennsarti]

Thanks @alanhamlett !