Hi everyone,
I had serious performance issues with Cursor AI on Windows β frequent slowdowns, high disk usage, and dozens of Cursor.exe
processes.
After several tests, I found a simple but very effective solution that completely fixed the issue for me.
What I was experiencing:
- Cursor got slower over time or completely froze
- 25β30
Cursor.exe
subprocesses running - Internal SSD (C:) was constantly saturated
- Setting
CURSOR_MAX_WORKERS
had no effect
My solution:
1. Moved Cursorβs cache to an external SSD (F:)
- Moved the folder:
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Cursor
βF:\Cursor_Cache
- Created a symbolic link:
mklink /D "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Cursor" "F:\Cursor_Cache"