Cursors take up a lot of memory

[Mrdapeng]

There are no complicated operations. Just opening the project takes up a lot of memory.

[mouratoglou]

in my case was a plugin which tool the cpu to 99% and I was almost able to cook an egg on the macbook surface.

[deanrie]

Hi @mouratoglou

Is your project large? If so, I experienced the same issue in VSCode.

[brinkokevin]

I just got this for the first time after using Composer. It finished and gave me the results, but a few minutes later, the memory kept increasing, and it basically froze my PC. Running Cursor 0.42.2.

Normally, Cursor would use about 1GB of memory when that project is open.

[dizengoff]

Likewise, I’m seeing enormous memory usage. I have a project in python using Quart. Typically sits around 80-90% memory and CPU usage and often crashes. Makes it very difficult to build or fix issues.

[deanrie]

Hi @dizengoff

Try this:

Cursor hogging memory (?)

Hi @Viswa4599 Yes, large projects use a lot of memory, both in VS Code and Cursor, but try checking the processes by opening the command palette and searching for “process explorer”.

[wine379]

Turns out, the real culprit behind the memory overload was the chat itself! After some digging, I found a game-changing fix—compressing all the project files into a new folder and reopening it as a fresh project. And just like that… Boom! It worked like magic!

[zhaoxi2000]

Now the IDE is very slow for me!
What is the cursor helper and how to limit it?