diff --git a/docker/site-a-node-a/appsettings.Site.json b/docker/site-a-node-a/appsettings.Site.json
index f33407c3..3e54acb0 100644
--- a/docker/site-a-node-a/appsettings.Site.json
+++ b/docker/site-a-node-a/appsettings.Site.json
@@ -87,7 +87,24 @@
     // pre-host secret expander.
     "Replication": {
       "PeerAddress": "http://scadabridge-site-a-b:8083",
-      "ApiKey": "dev-site-a-localdb-sync-key"
+      "ApiKey": "dev-site-a-localdb-sync-key",
+      // ---- Phase 2 sizing, from the Task 1 rig soak (not from the defaults) ----
+      //
+      // MaxBatchSize (default 500) is a ROW count, not a byte budget, so the batch
+      // size in bytes is set by the widest replicated column. That is
+      // deployed_configurations.config_json: ~721 B on this rig, but up to ~60-70 KB
+      // in production (measured, Task 1) - and 70 KB x 500 is ~35 MB against gRPC's
+      // 4 MB default receive limit. 16 keeps a worst-case batch near 1.1 MB.
+      "MaxBatchSize": 16,
+      // Backlog caps bound the oplog while the peer is offline. Exceeding them is
+      // NOT data loss: the oplog is pruned to the ceiling and needs_snapshot is set,
+      // so the peer catches up by snapshot resync instead of incrementally. That
+      // makes tighter-than-default correct here - it trades a rare full resync for a
+      // bounded file. Sized from the soak's 0.80 sf_messages rows/sec (the only
+      // non-zero writer measured): ~69k rows/day, so 2 days is ~138k. 250,000 leaves
+      // room for burst without approaching the 1,000,000 default.
+      "MaxOplogRows": 250000,
+      "MaxOplogAge": "2.00:00:00"
     }
   }
 }
diff --git a/docker/site-a-node-b/appsettings.Site.json b/docker/site-a-node-b/appsettings.Site.json
index 78062879..376d2b44 100644
--- a/docker/site-a-node-b/appsettings.Site.json
+++ b/docker/site-a-node-b/appsettings.Site.json
@@ -80,7 +80,24 @@
     // fail-closed, so a typo here does not degrade to unauthenticated replication;
     // it rejects every stream and the pair silently stops converging.
     "Replication": {
-      "ApiKey": "dev-site-a-localdb-sync-key"
+      "ApiKey": "dev-site-a-localdb-sync-key",
+      // ---- Phase 2 sizing, from the Task 1 rig soak (not from the defaults) ----
+      //
+      // MaxBatchSize (default 500) is a ROW count, not a byte budget, so the batch
+      // size in bytes is set by the widest replicated column. That is
+      // deployed_configurations.config_json: ~721 B on this rig, but up to ~60-70 KB
+      // in production (measured, Task 1) - and 70 KB x 500 is ~35 MB against gRPC's
+      // 4 MB default receive limit. 16 keeps a worst-case batch near 1.1 MB.
+      "MaxBatchSize": 16,
+      // Backlog caps bound the oplog while the peer is offline. Exceeding them is
+      // NOT data loss: the oplog is pruned to the ceiling and needs_snapshot is set,
+      // so the peer catches up by snapshot resync instead of incrementally. That
+      // makes tighter-than-default correct here - it trades a rare full resync for a
+      // bounded file. Sized from the soak's 0.80 sf_messages rows/sec (the only
+      // non-zero writer measured): ~69k rows/day, so 2 days is ~138k. 250,000 leaves
+      // room for burst without approaching the 1,000,000 default.
+      "MaxOplogRows": 250000,
+      "MaxOplogAge": "2.00:00:00"
     }
   }
 }