Same issue on Mac after upgrading. Was unusable, rebooted. Better for a while, but still laggy and still seeing the Cursor Helper memory spike.
Full Proc Explorer
Same issue on Mac after upgrading. Was unusable, rebooted. Better for a while, but still laggy and still seeing the Cursor Helper memory spike.
Full Proc Explorer
Interestingly, this is a clean install of Windows 11. In my Windows 10 environment I wasn’t experiencing this at all.
Since having this issue, I have uninstalled and reinstalled cursor and the afflicting extension. The issue reoccurs.
I may have temporarily fixed the issue though by uninstalling vscode and reinstalling the extension in cursor.
mine comes back after a few seconds. But its annoying as ■■■■ lol.
I’m only seeing this on a python project. I have another project using react-native, and one using vite and i can even run the window at the same time for the other project. The Python project suffers, but the others do not.
Could be a red herring, but I’m thinking it could be in the python interpreter element of Cursor perhaps?
The chat, composer and agent is all effected.
This is SUCH a cool tech I really want to help you guys get to the bottom of this, as I’m using the app almost all day in some format or another.
If you can monitor the memory usage and spot it when its high before the crash, you should be able to check the process explorer to see what is using your RAM within Cursor.
Most of the time, we find extensions to cause this issue, not Cursor itself.
That’s the thing, in process explorer there is nothing visible. In Windows task manager the memory is high, but also not that high for Cursor itself. There must be some hidden process or some conflict. Maybe the antivirus. I don’t know, where it could be visible the exact thing increasing the memory, but certain thing is, I open Cursor, no problem. If I ask in chat the AI to do things, from that moment, there is a timer and in around half hour to an hour the memory will be filled 100%. If I catch it at 99% and close Cursor, in a few minutes I get back slowly to 60%, then if I wait even more it will slowly go down to normal.
What background services do this, no idea, but in the process explorer it is not visible.
What version of Cursor are you on?
Version: 0.45.5
VSCode Version: 1.96.2
Commit: e599ee6d2218c8b6fef45980f8cc964bacc0caa0
Date: 2025-01-28T22:23:41.566Z
Electron: 32.2.6
Chromium: 128.0.6613.186
Node.js: 20.18.1
V8: 12.8.374.38-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045
Yes, same here.
My cursor is starting a lot of node process recursively until it freezes my laptop. As soon as I close it everything goes back to normal.
MacOS, m3, 36gb ram.
it used to be ok until a few days ago!