Fix: VS Code Crashes with OOM When Connected to a Remote Server
Over the past week, I kept running into frequent crashes while using VS Code to connect to remote servers via SSH.
The issue would specifically occur when running commands in the VS Code terminal: the UI would freeze while memory usage climbed steadily in the background, eventually causing VS Code to crash entirely and prompt for a reload. Even after reloading, the problem persisted — it took repeatedly disconnecting and reconnecting to get things working again.
At first I suspected it was a problem specific to a particular server connection, but I later found that connecting through Windows Terminal or Termius worked fine. The issue also reproduced when connecting to WSL, which strongly pointed to VS Code itself as the culprit.
A quick search confirmed this wasn't an isolated case:
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/239541
The suspected cause is font rendering with the CommitMono font. Following the temporary workaround in the issue thread, I changed the Terminal › Integrated: Font Family setting from CommitMono to default — and the crashes stopped.
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