# CPU server usage **URL:** \ **Category:** Bug Reports\ **Created:** [September 20, 2024, 3:06pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cpu-server-usage/17825 "2024-09-20T15:06:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BH0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/bh0/32/12161_2.png) [@BH0](https://forum.cursor.com/u/BH0)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 3:06pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cpu-server-usage/17825/1 "2024-09-20T15:06:55Z")
![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/2X/a/a808174bbf57102cfd746bc0f1f2a1aad824cd38.png) Need help, useing ubuntu server and cursor keeps spawning instances for me, tried to delete cursor-server from root, tried reinstalling, also tried to turn off all cursor instances from htop, and it helped, for one day. I am a very active user of cursor, so I have chatted and opened many chats, and was coding a lot, giving a lot of codes for it, maybe its the cache or something, even deleted all the chats but I still get the issue, most of the time the CPU usage in all cores is 99% and cursor top 1 eater 😃 help bros EDIT: I am windows user, using cursor as vscode with ssh connection ---
**Author:** ![deanrie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/deanrie/32/1263_2.png) [@deanrie](https://forum.cursor.com/u/deanrie)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 3:13pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cpu-server-usage/17825/2 "2024-09-20T15:13:30Z")
Hi @BH0 It could be some kind of extension. Open Process Explorer and check there, maybe you’ll find the cause. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/2X/1/1ff4de9b20fd7056a2089d3b1bfd2030c0529b2b.png) ---
**Author:** ![BH0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/bh0/32/12161_2.png) [@BH0](https://forum.cursor.com/u/BH0)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 3:19pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cpu-server-usage/17825/4 "2024-09-20T15:19:01Z")
@deanrie do you have any other idea? ---
**Author:** ![deanrie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/deanrie/32/1263_2.png) [@deanrie](https://forum.cursor.com/u/deanrie)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 3:23pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cpu-server-usage/17825/5 "2024-09-20T15:23:10Z")
Is your project large? When I open many large files, my CPU usage goes up as well. ---
**Author:** ![BH0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/bh0/32/12161_2.png) [@BH0](https://forum.cursor.com/u/BH0)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 3:26pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cpu-server-usage/17825/6 "2024-09-20T15:26:44Z")
3.5k lines but I open like 500-1k lines of code most of the time maximum ---
**Author:** ![BH0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/bh0/32/12161_2.png) [@BH0](https://forum.cursor.com/u/BH0)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 3:30pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cpu-server-usage/17825/7 "2024-09-20T15:30:53Z")
![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/2X/8/845f6ea7dd0dd080629a9a65c019ab1a19ab4970.png) Just did: pkill -f ‘cursor|vscode’ pkill -9 -f ‘cursor|vscode’ rm -rf ~/.cursor-server ~/.vscode-server restarted the server, and not 1 minute goes by and theese are the results like instantly ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/2X/4/4ecf80a55a21e3ca21e06d39003a25ded8f91546.png) ---
**Author:** ![deanrie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/deanrie/32/1263_2.png) [@deanrie](https://forum.cursor.com/u/deanrie)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 3:51pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cpu-server-usage/17825/8 "2024-09-20T15:51:41Z")
Here’s awesome, glad everything worked out. ---
**Author:** ![BH0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/bh0/32/12161_2.png) [@BH0](https://forum.cursor.com/u/BH0)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 3:53pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cpu-server-usage/17825/9 "2024-09-20T15:53:48Z")
nothing worked out man, I remove everything and minute goes by cores used 100% again ☹ check picture ---
**Author:** ![oscarlz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/oscarlz/32/10052_2.png) [@oscarlz](https://forum.cursor.com/u/oscarlz)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 12:37pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cpu-server-usage/17825/10 "2024-10-29T12:37:19Z")
I am having this same problem, also a cursor user using it with Windows and with the ssh extension. I can not say when it happens but it always happen when I am using cursor working remotely. Did you find out anything more @BH0? ---
**Author:** ![KevinAHM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/kevinahm/32/11874_2.png) [@KevinAHM](https://forum.cursor.com/u/KevinAHM)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2024, 12:13am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cpu-server-usage/17825/11 "2024-11-15T00:13:02Z")
Same problem except it’s RAM When I SSH into my Linux server it spawns endless Node instances which end up filling up the RAM. It takes only a few minutes before it’s full and then I lose connection. They are all cursor related, I see it in the process information. I don’t have any extensions for Cursor except the official Remote SSH one. ---
**Author:** ![Anandesh-Sharma](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/anandesh-sharma/32/35260_2.png) [@Anandesh-Sharma](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Anandesh-Sharma)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 1:32pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cpu-server-usage/17825/12 "2025-03-11T13:32:38Z")
mine was fixed by adding rules for indexing and docs that I’ve indexed. now it works fine on 0.46 ---
**Author:** ![Ali\_Usaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e99b99/32.png) [@Ali\_Usaid](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Ali_Usaid)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 8:38am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cpu-server-usage/17825/13 "2025-06-25T08:38:01Z")
Im facing the same issue on ubuntu 24 the CPU usage goes 99% and cursor freeze ---
**Author:** ![cocode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/cocode/32/83970_2.png) [@cocode](https://forum.cursor.com/u/cocode)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 8:50am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cpu-server-usage/17825/14 "2025-06-25T08:50:24Z")
Hi, are you root? I do not cursor-server. It was just a question, because there was no sudo in the command. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/system/32/99069_2.png) [@system](https://forum.cursor.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2025, 8:56am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cpu-server-usage/17825/15 "2025-12-21T08:56:56Z")
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