One final question ... > A higher amount of peers will require much more configuration and would > increase network traffic, but would likely decrease the delay for > getting the data replicated to anyone.
If a single local CouchDB is set up to replicated from 100 friends and after say some prolonged quiet period a message comes through from 1 of the friends (who has the latest copy with all documents in it) will all of the subsequent 99 cause the same volume of network traffic or will they end up being more like "hand shakes" in which it is determined that none of them have anything new and that no actual data should be sent? With that, I thank you all not only for giving me valuable insight but also for helping me to better formulated my questions. ;)
