Comment 29 for bug 458453

John, I'm sorry it annoyed you. The per-user couchdb server is only started on demand from some already-running program (evolution asked for it, perhaps?), and thereafter it should (and indeed does for most people) use almost no CPU except for deep DB searches.

I'm sorry to say, when it does happen, we don't know the cause of the erlang runtime process eating so much CPU, still. It's not easily reproducible or debuggable, and we thought the problem had gone away in the 11.04 released version.

If I can find steps to reproduce the problem, I'll update 11.04.