VS code recreates browse.vc.db file

[vgagrani]

bvdev@429[~/src/browse/.vscode]#ls -lha
total 1.1G
drwxr-xr-x. 2 vivek.gagrani Engineering 4.0K Nov 7 17:33 ./
drwxr-xr-x. 8 vivek.gagrani Engineering 4.0K Nov 7 17:24 ../
-rw-r--r--. 1 vivek.gagrani Engineering 1.1G Nov 7 18:34 browse.vc.db
-rw-r--r--. 1 vivek.gagrani Engineering 556 Nov 7 01:07 c_cpp_properties.json
-rw-r--r--. 1 vivek.gagrani Engineering 0 Nov 7 18:34 .nfs0000000003f6090d00000040
-rw-r--r--. 1 vivek.gagrani Engineering 32K Nov 7 18:34 .nfs0000000003f6090e0000003f
-rw-r--r--. 1 vivek.gagrani Engineering 936 Nov 7 16:58 settings.json

bvdev@429[~/src/browse/.vscode]#ls -lha
total 1.1G
drwxr-xr-x. 2 vivek.gagrani Engineering 4.0K Nov 14 13:26 ./
drwxr-xr-x. 8 vivek.gagrani Engineering 4.0K Nov 7 17:24 ../
-rw-r--r--. 1 vivek.gagrani Engineering 4.8M Nov 14 13:29 browse.vc.db
-rw-r--r--. 1 vivek.gagrani Engineering 32K Nov 14 13:29 browse.vc.db-shm
-rw-r--r--. 1 vivek.gagrani Engineering 8.0M Nov 14 13:29 browse.vc.db-wal
-rw-r--r--. 1 vivek.gagrani Engineering 556 Nov 7 01:07 c_cpp_properties.json
-rw-r--r--. 1 vivek.gagrani Engineering 1.1G Nov 14 13:26 .nfs0000000003f6090800000051
-rw-r--r--. 1 vivek.gagrani Engineering 4.0M Nov 14 12:45 .nfs000000000a953eed00000050
-rw-r--r--. 1 vivek.gagrani Engineering 32K Nov 14 13:26 .nfs000000000a953eee0000004f
-rw-r--r--. 1 vivek.gagrani Engineering 938 Nov 7 19:20 settings.json

everytime I remote login ssh to my system, intellisense recreate the vc.db from the scratch again. I have a big project alomost 11G , and intellisense starts creating the symbol database again whenever I login or if somehow my ssh goes to reconnect state. This is realluy time consuming. There are few instances already opened and closed for this and I followed whatever there on those incidents mentioned but still there is no luck. Some of the similar incidents reported are
this and this
Below is my workspace settings.json file

 {
    "C_Cpp.default.browse.databaseFilename": "${workspaceFolder}/.vscode/browse.vc.db",
    "C_Cpp.errorSquiggles": "disabled",
    "cmake.configureOnOpen": false,
    "files.exclude": {
        "sigmatch/suricata-3.2.1/**": true,
        "sigmatch/suricata-4.1.0/**": true,
        "sigmatch/suricata-2.0/**": true,
        "sigmatch/suricata-3.0/**": true,
        "sigmatch/suricata-2.0.8/**": true,
        "sigmatch/suricata-2.0.3/**": true,
        "sigmatch/suricata-4.1.2/**": true,
        "sigmatch/suricata-4.1.3/**": true,
        "sigmatch/suricata-4.1.5/**": true,
        "sigmatch/suricata-5.0.4/**": true,
        "sigmatch/suricata-6.0.4/**": true,
        "sigmatch/suricata-6.0.5/**": true
    },
    //"C_Cpp.intelliSenseEngineFallback": "enabled",
   // "cmake.configureOnOpen": false,
   //"cmake.sourceDirectory": "/home2/vivek.gagrani/src/browse/6windgate/dpdk-pmd-mellanox-rdma-core
 }

bvdev@429[~/src/browse/.vscode]#cat c_cpp_properties.json

{
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "Linux",
            "includePath": [
                "${workspaceFolder}/**"
            ],
            "defines": [],
            "compilerPath": "/usr/bin/gcc",
            "cStandard": "c11",
            "cppStandard": "c++14",
            "browse": {
                "limitSymbolsToIncludedHeaders": true,
                "path": [
                    "${workspaceFolder}/**"
                 ]
             },
            "intelliSenseMode": "linux-gcc-x64"
        }
    ],
    "version": 4
}

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Can someone please help me on this

[sean-mcmanus]

@vgagrani With C_Cpp.loggingLevel set to "Debug" what does the logging show in regards to the database being reset? It's supposed to show an error message about why the database is being reset.

[JyChang012]

Hi, I have the same issue on a cluster with shared filesystem.
I have a large cpp project on an HPC cluster's shared filesystem and I have to start vscode remote on a new node each time I want to work on it. I find that the browse.vc.db file was regenerated each time I switch to a different node before intelliSense is available, which takes hours. How to prevent vscode cpptools from re-generating the browse.vc.db each time?