I have been noticing an unacceptable CPU usage on Cursor across multiple macs. The task that is responsible for lint or file sync or somehow watching the file system using ripgrep (rgArm) consumes every available CPU core on my machine jumping to over a 1000% CPU usage. Ultimately I end up having t…

Excessive CPU Usage on M3 Mac

deanrie (Dean Rie) September 10, 2024, 4:38am 3

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