I saw a couple of forum posts talking about it. Some say due to the composer, some due to extensions. I almost never use the composer, I just use CMD + K and autocompletions.
Upon inspecting a lot of forum posts I think the issue is due to some extensions. But disabling them is NOT a solution I want to use. I only install extensions I need, so disabling them would slow my down during programming, thus defeating the point of using Cursor.
Provide a clear description of the bug
I’m using Cursor every day, and I almost never shut down my laptop. But sometimes my battery seems to be going down very fast and my laptop fan is spinning (normally it should not during my workload). When I check ‘Activity Monitor’ I see one or even more ‘Cursor Helper’ apps running and they all use exactly one FULL core of my CPU. Even when shutting Cursor down it stays active so the only way I notice that this is happening is due to my battery draining rapidly (and probably destroying my long term battery life)
In the screenshot below you can see that my CPU is used 102%, it’s always between 95-105%. Also something strange, the Virtual Memory Size is 1.5TB?! My machine has 16GB ram and 500GB storage.
Explain how to reproduce the bug (if known)
I don’t know, please see above.
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Tell us your operating system and your Cursor version (e.g., Windows, 0.x.x).
Version: 0.44.11
VSCode Version: 1.93.1
Commit: fe574d0820377383143b2ea26aa6ae28b3425220
Date: 2025-01-03T07:59:06.361Z (1 wk ago)
Electron: 30.5.1
Chromium: 124.0.6367.243
Node.js: 20.16.0
V8: 12.4.254.20-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.2.0
OS: MacOS Sequoia (15.2)
Machine: MacBook Pro 14" - M1 Pro
Tell us if the issue stops you from using Cursor.
Yes, I am considering moving back to VS Code because this bug is destroying my battery life long-term. I would be very sad if this needs to happen. So I hope the bug is fixed soon!