visual-studio-2015resharper-2016

Extreme slowness on visual studio startup - creates a great deal of node processes


I use Visual Studio 2015 update 2 and Resharper 2016.1.1 on daily basis and since the last update (both where updated on the same day) upon any project startup it creates like 30-50 node processes which suck up my memory and CPU. For around 15 minutes my pc is unusable due to this. When the processes stop executing the pc, VS and R# run smoothly.

Anyone know what might be causing this? What could be creating this node processes?


Solution

  • From what I could find, Visual Studio creates a node process per package.json in the solution. At some point in time I had a package.json in multiple projects inside the solution being this likely the cause.