tsserver seems to watch entire home directory

[sweber83]

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When developing on a typescript project I keep needing to restart the tsserver because it always gets unresponsive after the first iteration checking my opened file.
Today I finally had a look at the log file.
I found the following lines (redacted my user name):

DirectoryWatcher:: Added:: WatchInfo: /home/REDACTED/ 1 undefined WatchType: node_modules for closed script infos and package.jsons affecting module specifier cache
...
Info 72523[16:05:52.615] sysLog:: /home/REDACTED/some/file/somewhere/in/my/home:: Defaulting to watchFile
...
Elapsed:: 263231.954163ms DirectoryWatcher:: Added:: WatchInfo: /home/REDACTED/ 1 undefined WatchType: node_modules for closed script infos and package.jsons affecting module specifier cache

The line in between the ellipsis is repeated hundred thousands of times, apparently watching all the files in my home directory.
What could be the issue?

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• This behavior was observed in version 5.3.3, 5.4.5 & 5.7.3

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[RyanCavanaugh]

We haven't seen any other reports of this, so need some more clues as to what might be unusual about your setup here. WSL? Linux? Mac? Where are your TypeScript files/tsconfigs? Anything that's out of the ordinary would be good to know about.