On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Kismat Sood <kismat.s...@spacex.com> wrote: > Thank you for the link. Setting it up looks simple, but I can't tell if data > is compressed when it is sent over the network during replication. Any idea > where I could find this out?
Only attachments that were stored in compressed form (gzip, see the [attachments] section in the .ini config) will be send to the target in compressed form. You can always verify it by yourself using a packet sniffer (wireshark, tcpdump, tcpflow) - it's http and json, how easier could it be? > > Thanks again. > Kismat > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nils Breunese [mailto:n.breun...@vpro.nl] > Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 1:17 AM > To: user@couchdb.apache.org > Subject: Re: Replication Question > > Kismat Sood wrote: > >> During replication, is the data being sent from one node to the other >> compressed? If so, can anyone point me to any documentation where I can >> learn more about it (e.g. how to set it up, what is configurable, and what >> is going on under the hood). > > I don't know what's going on under the hood exactly, but > http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Replication should tell you all about what you > can do with replication. > > Nils. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > VPRO www.vpro.nl > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -- Filipe David Manana, "Reasonable men adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable men adapt the world to themselves. That's why all progress depends on unreasonable men."
