[feature request] Pause indexing

[dnsampaio]

Hi,
while performing huge changes (e.g. merging llvm-project from upstream that changes 3k files) frequently I get to compile while clangd is indexing the project it self. It would be most useful to be able to pause (or kill) / resume (or restart) clangd's indexing from vscode.

[dnsampaio]

From a quick test, in linux just doing a sigstop (19) / sigcont(18) seems to do the work very well.
Killing the process will make it spawn a new one.

[HighCommander4]

Are you looking to pause the clangd server process altogether, or just the background indexer? Sigstop has the effect of the former, which means e.g. hover or go-to-definition in an open file will also not work during the pause.

[dnsampaio]

Indeed I would like to still work during compilation, so the first. I would imagine that's a clangd request then. Although ,having the former one until it is implemented on the server side wouldn't be a bad thing, as I can still work using the search tools to find definitions and so on.

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[Lev275568]

I wish stop cpu & memory consuming if some build task (compilation) is running.