Comment 30 for bug 458453

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John Gilmore (gnu-gilmore) wrote :

It was apparently started by gwibber (perhaps because I briefly opened the menu in the upper right corner of the Ubuntu Natty screen, which seems to be a gwibber thing; I do not use social networking).

One possible problem is that the Erlang runtime is started with the -heart option, so it burns time whether or not any demands are placed on it. Is there a reason that the "desktop couchdb" instance needs a heartbeat? The heart process wakes up every 5
seconds, forever. And it demands that the main process wake up as frequently, too. This means that the CPU can never stop running for more than 5 seconds, even when the machine is "completely idle".

The main process seems to wake up every 10 minutes and write a few lines to the logfiles. There is no apparent reason for this activity. I have attached my logfile.