Very high usage of CPU on apple silicon

Cursor, uses about 80% of my cpu whole CPU, when idle and doing nothing, it has been this way for about an hour, i restarted it many times, uninstalled-reinstalled as well, nothing stops that high cpu usage.

I am on Mac M1 pro, Cursor version: 0.46.8

It has basically made cursor unusable, consumes way to much battery and makes everything very slow.

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Hey, can you share screenshots of the Process Explorer? The issue might be related to an extension. Also, try booting in safe mode using this command in your terminal: cursor --disable-extensions.

I tried booting in safe mode and it still happens, it also seems to be somewhat related to the size of the files I open, in the project, and if i have the agent/chat bar open:

No files open && no chat bar open → 35% CPU usage
1000 lines file open && no chat bar open → 60% CPU usage
1000 lines file open && chat bar open → 80% CPU usage
No files open && chat bar open → 30% CPU usage
300 line file open && chat bar open → 45% CPU usage

This might be related to having a lot of history in your chats. Try deleting some unnecessary ones.