Hi tijer, What is your App ID, and what is the exact quota error you were seeing?
-Nick On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:50 PM, tijer <troels...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 12 hours from now everything will revert to read-only and memcache > will fail. So, what to do? Well, x from Google provided a very useful > option on how to detect that the server has gone into read-only mode: > > capabilities.CapabilitySet('datastore_v3', ['write']).is_enabled() > > This will return a boolean value, and should look something like the > following in python: > > from google.appengine.api import capabilities # check capabilities > with this import > > if capabilities.CapabilitySet('datastore_v3', ['write']).is_enabled() > == False: > # render page normally here, including relying on writes and > memcache > else: > # fail gracefully here - possibly letting the user know that there's > maintenance going on and that he/she should wait half an hour and > check again > > HOWEVER, there is a huge problem. I just did something similar for my > app, with the result that it immediately gave me massive quota-fails. > As soon as 100 of the capabilities.CapabilitySet('datastore_v3', > ['write']).is_enabled() had been used, it began returning over-quota > errors in the logs. > > I can't find the quota-reference that I have presumably been > surpassing anywhere in the documentation, but it suddenly showed up as > "Capability Configs Requested" and "Capability Configs Recieved". This > should really have been reflected in the email sent out, or at least > in the quota documentation. > > Under normal circumstances I would cache the response by is_enabled() > in memcache - but since this will not work either during maintenance - > there's really nothing to use the above for unless your site will have > less than 100 hits. > > I write this, so that others might not do the same. > > > > > > > -- Nick Johnson, Developer Programs Engineer, App Engine --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---