ok, I was able to check over my code again and even with rolling back
small changes, the large CPU increases are still there. at this point,
I have to agree with herbie's findings as well. It would be nice if
Google could weigh in on this troubling issue

cheers
brian


On Sep 8, 4:51 am, herbie <4whi...@o2.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sep 8, 12:07 am, Stephen <sdea...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > OK, but because api_cpu_ms is 96% of the total, then cpu_ms is also
> > almost 3x higher? The spike is showing up in the cpu_ms?
>
> Yes in total the cpu_ms has gone up by nearly 3x too.
>
> But as I understand it cpu_ms is the total cpu usage for the request
> and api_cpu_ms is the cpu usage by GAE api calls.   So the difference
> between the two is the cpu usage of my non api code. This difference
> hasn’t increased because the code hasn’t changed.
>
> But yes, the new high value for api_cpu_ms directly affects my quota
> because it makes the vast majority of cpu_ms.  So we do pay for
> api_cpu_ms !   So for example if Google makes a change to db.put()
> (or any api call) so that it uses more cpu,   we will be billed for
> more cpu usage even if our code hasn’t changed.
>
> As my code/ indexes hasn’t changed and the api_cpu_ms  has shot up the
> obvious conclusion is that an api/datastore  change has caused it?
>
> But there may be another ‘good’ reason for it, which I can’t think
> of,  but as I’m going to have to pay for the increase in api_cpu_ms,
> I would really appreciate  it if someone at Google could help.
>
> On Sep 8, 12:07 am, Stephen <sdea...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Sep 7, 8:57 pm, herbie <4whi...@o2.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > > On Sep 7, 6:50 pm, Stephen <sdea...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > What about cpu_ms, is that also higher for requests which write to the
> > > > data store?
>
> > > No, not in relation to api_cpu_ms.  For the request that does the most
> > > writing to the datastore api_cpu_ms accounts for 96% of the total
> > > cpu_ms value!.  The so request handler does not much more than create
> > > new entities in the datastore.
>
> > OK, but because api_cpu_ms is 96% of the total, then cpu_ms is also
> > almost 3x higher? The spike is showing up in the cpu_ms?
>
> > cpu_ms is billed for, so if you have billing enabled you are being
> > overcharged.
>
> > You could try asking for a refund here:
>
> >  http://code.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=AppEngineB...
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