Huge memory leaks and permanent performance degredation on Windows

Bug Reports
1

Describe the Bug

Love Cursor but never seen anything like this. I have definitely honed in on Cursor being the problem. Here are the two issue I am seeing

  • Memory leak. After only a few minutes of use, goodbye all of my RAM, never to be seen again.
  • Performance. I like to game during coding sessions. I can’t play anything without constant stutters even after closing Cursor. Must reboot the system.

Anyways, what a great bug report.. I don’t know how to be more helpful.

Steps to Reproduce

Use cursor
Do a couple prompts
Lose memory

Expected Behavior

Not lose memory

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version 1.4.3
VS Code 1.99.3

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

1 Like
2

We are working on this. Can you try v1.4.4 via Cursor Settings > Beta > Update Access: Early Access ?

3

I am also having this issue. Having to quit cursor every 20 minutes or so as all the memory (all 16GB) is used up.

Version: 1.4.5
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: af58d92614edb1f72bdd756615d131bf8dfa5290
Date: 2025-08-13T02:08:56.371Z
Electron: 34.5.8
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.1
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 6.14.0-27-generic

4

Can you screenshot >Developer: Process Explorer

5

It shows low memory usage, like 127 mb
But of course thats the thing with memory leaks. You don’t see em.