Error code 536870904 every few minutes

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Hi, since today i’m constantly getting those error message every few minutes.

My configuration should be fine and cursor or other programs are not even close to my maximum RAM usage. The first days everything went totally fine, even in “larger” projects than now.

Is there anything i can do?

Thanks for everyones help.

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Hey, this is a known issue. Crash code 536870904 means an OOM (out of memory) crash in the renderer process. It can happen even with plenty of RAM because the limit is at the Electron/Chromium level.

A few things you can try:

  1. Check OTEL errors in the logs: Ctrl+Shift+P > Developer: Toggle Developer Tools > Console. Look for lines like [otel.error] or OTLPExporterError. If you see them, it may be a telemetry memory leak that fills up memory.

  2. Rotate chats: don’t keep very long Agent sessions. Start a new chat when the current one gets big.

  3. Add folders to .cursorignore like node_modules, build, dist. This reduces indexing load.

  4. Disable extensions to test: run cursor --disable-extensions from the command line and see if the issue still happens.

The team is aware of this issue. They are already collecting performance traces from a few users to debug it. You can find more details and discussion here:

Share your Cursor version and OS (Help > About) so I can help more accurately.