UI unuseable/freezing when Agent is working

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My UI always freezes when the Agent is working.
I would like to see life code changes in an opened tab without everything completely freezing. I work on a workstation with enough CPU power, but it still freezes alot. It would also be nice in the agent chat window to keep the current location when scrolling up and checking out a change instead of constantly scrolling down to the latest output of the agent. But the whole chat windows is freezing anyway all the time until it’s done. Tons of timeout errors aswell with tools, even in the latest version 0.47.5

I run into OOM errors quite a lot aswell, even though I have plenty of ram available.

I use it on windows, don’t know if the ui is better and less freezing on linux.
Can anyone confirm if it’s the same on linux?
I know windows UI thread management is a pain, but it shouldn’t be so hard to implement multithreading so the UI doesn’t block anything else. Maybe that’s where the timeouts are coming from?
Shouldn’t the cursor team have enough resources to have an ui/multithreading guy solving these issues?
Or make it open source like vscode

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I have the same issue with the latest version. They said it’s because many chat history and probably caches. As a temporary solution, try clearing some of it. This method works for me.

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Hey, yes, thanks for suggesting this solution. I want to add that if you need your chat history, you can export it to markdown files using this extension:

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