Gavin Andresen - 2011-06-06 02:11:28

First, don't sudo; there is no reason for bitcoin to run as root.

Second:  it isn't done downloading the block chain.  I just checked a bitcoind I've got running on an Amazon micro instance, and it is using less than 1% of the CPU.  After you've got all 128,909 blocks the CPU usage should drop.