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