On Jan 20, 2014, at 11:23 AM, Paul Davis <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thus your db won't be
> 1000x larger than it needs to be and setting _revs_limit lower won't
> save you that much on disk space.

IIRC, the overhead of keeping revision history is on the order of 50 bytes per 
revision (just the space for storing its _rev ID). If you have huge numbers of 
small documents, or if you continually create and delete lots of documents, 
this can add up; but it's not significant in most use cases.

—Jens

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