Visual Studio Code took 10.7 GB RAM usage after using it for one hour

This problem happened to me yesterday. I managed to fix the problem, but I am not sure if my solution applies to yours. I'm using Windows 10 and Visual Studio Code version 1.33.1.

The solution is to go to settings and enable jedi. The culprit that was consuming excessive RAM was Python language server. So, by enabling jedi, instead of using the Python language server for the intellisense function, jedi was used instead.

This issue is mostly caused by the extensions.

Try to monitor menu Help → Open Process Explorer for a certain period to see which process name is taking large memory.

Try uninstalling all extensions and removing all their junk from %USERPROFILE%\.vscode\extensions for windows.