Have now had Gwibber, Firefox, Terminal and OpenOffice 3.2 running for a couple of hours with no high CPU problems. Before installing 'couchdb' pkg, 'beam' would have started using a lot of CPU, causing Xorg and other things to use high cpu thus saturating it (single CPU system).
Forgot to add mention my results...
Have now had Gwibber, Firefox, Terminal and OpenOffice 3.2 running for a couple of hours with no high CPU problems. Before installing 'couchdb' pkg, 'beam' would have started using a lot of CPU, causing Xorg and other things to use high cpu thus saturating it (single CPU system).