For a little over a week now I have been having high CPU usage issues by Sophos HitmanPro.Alert, Sophos Endpoint Defence and Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection Service when performing GIT operations in Visual Studio Code on Windows 10.
I have the following GIT-related extensions installed in Visual Studio Code:
- Gitflow Actions Sidebar
- GitLens
The issue happens when I do any of the following GIT operations:
- Fetch
- Pull
- Compare Changes
- Commit
- Push or Synch
It is making a sub 5 second operation into up to 30 seconds at times.
Here is one occasion captured from TaskManager
...and from another occasion
The folder location of the project code has already been added into the Sophos exclusions.
Is there another folder location I need to request added to the Sophos exclusions? Maybe a temporary folder where GIT or VS writes files ready for GIT operations?
Is there anything else which can be configured for Sophos or Windows Defender when using Visual Studio Code and GIT?
EDIT 1: I have tried disabling both of the two states extensions and that does not make any difference.
EDIT 2: I have just discovered this morning that this issue does not appear to happen when the remote repo is a BitBucket repo, only for an Azure Dev Ops repo.
