Memory usage greatly exceeds expectations

Discussion
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I’ve experienced immense bloat in memory usage in the past 2 weeks. I’m not sure if that aligns to a version bump. I’m using a Macbook.

Cursor-related processes are taking up several gigabytes of memory. I am developing what I believe to be a fairly straightforward application with Typescript and Ruby (type checked with sorbet).

Cursor Helper (Plugin): extension-host [2-2]
4.22 GB
Cursor Helper (Renderer)
1.31 GB
tsserver[5.5.4]: semantic
1.30 GB
tsserver[5.5.4]: diagnostics
sorbet
1.09 GB
sorbet
1.09

Thanks! Let me know if other diagnostics are helpful, or if there are configurations or workarounds I should try.

Version: 0.44.11
VSCode Version: 1.93.1
Commit: fe574d0820377383143b2ea26aa6ae28b3425220
Date: 2025-01-03T07:59:06.361Z
Electron: 30.5.1
Chromium: 124.0.6367.243
Node.js: 20.16.0
V8: 12.4.254.20-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 22.5.0

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Hey, usually these issues are caused by extensions that you may be running, that are not working very efficiently.

Can you try checking the processes by opening the command palette and searching for “process explorer”, and seeing what in there is causing the large resource usage?