It's really a bit silly, though -- as far as I can tell the GET requests against the source DB are only used to keep the source_seq information in _active_tasks current.
Adam On Aug 29, 2013, at 2:36 PM, Robert Newson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > The checkpoint interval is now configurable on Cloudant (as of a few > days ago) as a consequence of either your report or another user. Just > add "checkpoint_interval": <number> to your _replicate request. If > your replication is started by CouchDB then this option will not > currently work. > > B. > > > > On 29 August 2013 19:31, Franck Eyraud <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> I didn't find the answer to the following questions using Google : >> >> Why does Couchdb send a GET request to the database every 5 seconds while >> replicating continuously ? Doesn't the replicator use the _change API (with >> heartbeat functionality) anyway ? And if there is a need to poll aserver >> alive, 5 seconds seem very often to me. >> >> Plus, it seems it adds some fee issues in some cases : >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18254772/hanging-replications-on-cloudant >> >> I don't have the issue above yet, but in the case of an application where >> clients can replicate so that they can run offline, this would result in a >> loot of requests. Is there a way to avoid this ? To make it less often ? >> >> Thank you for your help, >> >> Franck Eyraud >> >> >>
