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(Get the code!)
I upgraded my Ubuntu 10.04 system to 11.04 recently. I do not use Evolution, Ubuntu One, or Gwibber or Weather. Yet I still find this beam.smp process has burned 979 minutes of CPU since the last reboot 18 days ago -- apparently for no reason at all.
First, why is it getting started at all? ps ax --forest shows it's run from /usr/bin/couchdb but there's no indication about why "Apache CouchDB" is running at all. dpkg -S shows it's from the "couchdb-bin" package. When I try to remove that package with "apt-get remove", it also wants to remove desktopcouch and evolution-couchdb. I don't use any of those things.
Aha, a clue: "apt-cache show evolution-couchdb" reports that "This package provides support for the Evolution mail and calendar program
to access CouchDB databases (http://
synchronization database of JSON documents, used by online services like
UbuntuOne at http://
Great, so in Canonical's haste to use its Ubuntu distribution funnel to drive revenues to its unrelated server cluster business, they stuck everyone with this package that burns up CPU even when nobody uses it. Clever.
Even more clever is that after I removed those three packages (couchdb-bin, desktopcouch, evolution-couchdb), the damn beam.smp process IS STILL RUNNING, burning up CPU! That's a packaging problem for sure.