gemini-cli - 💡(How to fix) Fix SLOW Response and Usage limits stop gemini CLI. = unusable

What happened?

1. Thinking on simple tasks for >> 40 minutes. pro_2.5
2. Keep getting usage limit interruptions when using a model that isn't being limited.

Gemini-cli has become so frustrating to use. I am a casual user that pays for the pro plan and the last two weeks have been incredibly frustrating. The performance is bad AND the results worse.

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│ Session Stats │ │ │ │ Interaction Summary │ │ Session ID: fb4c522d-f29a-41ea-aa23-ec3f4b41f2ef │ │ Auth Method: Signed in with Google ([email protected]) │ │ Tier: Gemini Code Assist in Google One AI Pro │ │ Tool Calls: 10 ( ✓ 9 x 1 ) │ │ Success Rate: 90.0% │ │ User Agreement: 100.0% (10 reviewed) │ │ │ │ Performance │ │ Wall Time: 59m 49s │ │ Agent Active: 15m 51s │ │ » API Time: 15m 19s (96.6%) │ │ » Tool Time: 31.9s (3.4%) │ │ │ │ │ │ Model Usage │ │ Use /model to view model quota information │ │ │ │ Model Reqs Input Tokens Cache Reads Output Tokens │ │ ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── │ │ gemini-3.1-flash-lite 1 1,704 0 13 │ │ ↳ utility_summarizer 1 1,704 0 13 │ │ gemini-2.5-pro 110 1,240,470 563,276 3,990 │ │ ↳ main 107 929,973 411,886 2,050 │ │ ↳ utility_compressor 3 310,497 151,390 1,940 │ │ gemini-3-flash-preview 2 0 0 0 │ │ ↳ utility_tool 2 0 0 0 │ ╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

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What did you expect to happen?

Expected response time << 5 minutes. Expected when using 2.5 that 3.1 usage limits would not stop usage.

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│ About Gemini CLI │ │ │ │ CLI Version 0.42.0 │ │ Git Commit 68e2196d5 │ │ Model gemini-2.5-pro │ │ Sandbox no sandbox │ │ OS darwin │ │ Auth Method Signed in with Google ([email protected]) │ │ Tier Gemini Code Assist in Google One AI Pro │ │

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