After running cursor for about 5 mins I can see a Git process in the activity monitor and within few seconds the memory shoots up to more than 20GB and freezes my laptop [image] On clicking on the Git process I can see this [image] Had to switch to vscode because of this issue I don’t even ha…

Hey, do you have any Git extensions installed?

Nope, don’t have any extensions

The “extension-host” indicates that the issue is related to the extensions. To check this, try starting in safe mode: cursor --disable-extensions. If everything is fine, open Process Explorer to try to identify the problematic extension.

[image] deanrie: cursor --disable-extensions will try this

tried disabling extension, still crashed, but got this [image] /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/git show --pretty=format:%s<|ENT|><|RY|>%b<|ENT|><|RY|>%an<|E...

Found some similar issues posted as well [image] Cursor is killing my mac! (process: rg and host-extension) Bug Reports Sure! I put everything that could be big, it’s same as my settings.json .cursorignore **/.cache/ **/.cargo/ **/.DS_Store **/.foundry/ **/.git/ **/.lo…

I think @danperks can handle this.

Hey, does this happen still if you run Cursor with extensions disabled? To do this, go into a terminal and run cursor --disable-extensions. I’d be surprised if this was Cursor doing this out the box, I’d think this was either a bad Git installation or a bad extension that’s causing this as my firs…

yes it still happens, you can see my extensions here

Macbook crashing/restarting after cursor is on for 5 mins

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ashley (Ashley Fernandes) May 13, 2025, 6:29am 7

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Macbook crashing/restarting after cursor is on for 5 mins

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