Remote ssh, too slow to not working

Bug Reports
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Describe the Bug

I have problems working on my remote ssh. This happened after I updated to 0.5 and still persists with 1.15. It works every time I downgrade it to 0.49.6. It gets auto updated and doesn’t work. That’s how I understand, oh it got auto updated again…

It connects and successfully downloads the cursor server. but the loading of file views takes too long and sometimes I just give up.

Version: 1.1.5
VSCode Version: 1.96.2
Commit: ef5eeb47a684b4c217dfaf0463aa7ea952f8ab90
Date: 2025-06-21T05:23:57.743Z (3 days ago)
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.5.0

Steps to Reproduce

just connect to a ssh server, try to open a long txt file. it works on cursor 0.49.6.

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.1.5
VSCode Version: 1.96.2
Commit: ef5eeb47a684b4c217dfaf0463aa7ea952f8ab90
Date: 2025-06-21T05:23:57.743Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.5.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

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Same problem. I have suffered from it for fews of days. Please fix it. Thx

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Hi @Levent_Sirtas and @mingmingming, could you share the logs from the “Remote - SSH” output tab? This will help us pinpoint what is going wrong.

Also, how big is the workspace that you are opening on the remote (number of files recursively), and is the remote folder on NFS?

If yes (to either or both), I’d recommend to try to open a smaller workspace in Cursor, or to use multi-root workspaces. We’ve had some reports where opening a huge folder (with many files, recursively) causes the main server process to hang, which then causes the remote to disconnect. We are trying to trace down what is causing this.

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Thx. I lost my logs. Now, I deteled all files in the remote .curosr path. Then, I find that the remote file pull or push is extremely slow. Please also see Download cursor server too slow - #2 by c4talyst. Thx for your attetion. I will try a smaller workspace.