Daemon memory

@mosetta/ide-plugin-daemon · How much memory the daemon holds, and how much everything it started holds — on the toolbar.

What it does

A chip on the toolbar with two numbers: the daemon's own memory, and the memory of what it started — language servers, terminals, the debugger. They are shown apart on purpose: "how much does the IDE cost" and "how much does what it runs cost" are different questions, and a TypeScript server alone can hold a gigabyte. The tooltip explains, and a click opens the setting that hides the chip.

The numbers come from the heartbeat the tab exchanges with the daemon anyway, so the chip costs nothing extra.

Settings

Section daemon in settings.json:

| Key | Default | What it does | |---|---|---| | memory | true | Show the chip. |

Screenshots and demos

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Using it from another plugin

The numbers are a core signal, available to any plugin without this one:

const memory = this.ide.daemon.value; // { rssMb, kidsMb } or null when not known yet

kidsMb is null on systems where a process tree cannot be measured — "we do not know" rather than zero.