Cursor freezes; state.vscdb grows to 10 GB

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The app shouldn’t allow for state.vscdb to grow to 10 GB. The app keeps freezing all the time, perhaps that’s what causes the issue.

I have just a few chats opened at all time and they are not that long

What should I do? Open that dir and delete DB manually all the time? I swear this vibecoding will make all devs to loose all their real skills soon…the UI pane resize became laggy in recent updates as well, it’s so bad

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Here’s some debug info:

```
sqlite3 ./state.vscdb “SELECT name, SUM(pgsize) as size FROM dbstat GROUP BY name ORDER BY size DESC LIMIT 10;”
```

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After I ran sqlite3 ./state.vscdb vacuum nothing really changed:

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Hi @Aleksey_Hoffman , Can you try running this:

Can you try to run control+shift+P - Developer: Delete Old Chats

Lets you pick a cutoff (e.g. chats older than 30 days) and bulk-deletes them. This should clean up older chats and free up space in your database.

Let me know if this doesn’t help and we can explore other options, but I think this will work.