Cursor IDE is slow as ... (unworkable)

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Lately the Cursor IDE is almost unresponsive.
It is the app in itself that doesn’t respond, not the LLM response.

  • restarted my laptop
  • closed the cursor IDE
  • made sure all commits are done

but still very slow.

I see that the following memory consumption:

  • cursor 4.3 GB
  • cursor helper 6 GB
  • Docker 11 GB
  • python 2 GB

I have another set up where I don’t use docker, but even then the cursor IDE is slow.

with a laptop of 16 gb, very likely this is due to memory swapping.
anybody any suggestions for this (besides buying a more beefed one).

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Hey, sorry to hear you are having some issues here.

Can you try running the Process Explorer, and checking what is using up so much memory? It’s possible an extension is using up a lot of RAM, which is causing the slowdown.

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