Hi there, I'm using couchdb to synchronize a bunch of distributed computers whose only internet connection is a flaky GPRS modem and a suspect EDGE network. I had thought that getting them to sync up would be as simple as firing off a continuous replication task and assuming that replication will happen whenever the modem and network are cooperating. However empirically what I've seen is that they don't appear to replicate very well or consistently at all. However, if I do a non-continuous replication when the connection is working okay it seems to push everything fine.
I know from http://guide.couchdb.org/draft/replication.html#continuous that the continuous replication algorithm "is complex and is fine-tuned every once in a while" so it's undocumented, but is it possible it's not designed very well for extremely flaky, up and down connections? My current plan is to get rid of continuous replication and just run a cron job that tries to do synchronous replication a few times a day. Does this seem to others like a reasonable alternative? And hopefully not too much more bandwidth intensive than continuous replication? thanks, Cory
