And, I forgot to mention, the index page only uses the datastore and memcache in secondary Ajax calls, except for users who are signed in. For html pages I use the Django version that's included in GAE.
On Feb 21, 2:59 am, Anders <i...@blabline.com> wrote: > I'm using Python. And only Python's standard library that's in GAE. My > guess is that the cold start problem is similar in the Java version. > > The cold start time has improved but now and then loading the index > page takes frustratingly long time. That's poor quality for both end > users and developers. > > On Feb 20, 7:21 pm, Brandon Thomson <gra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Are you using python or java? what is your framework? > > > On Feb 20, 1:26 am, Anders <i...@blabline.com> wrote: > > > > This has been discussed before but the problem still remains. It seems > > > that GAE is no longer in a preview release version (as far as I can > > > see). Having a cold start initiation time of 10 seconds is a major > > > bottleneck. > > > > Imagine if it took 10 seconds to load for example the Google Search > > > index page in your browser. It doesn't sound like a very long time, > > > but today that kind of load time for an index page is very poor > > > performance. > > > > I understand that GAE cannot at the moment hold all applications hot/ > > > warm, because that would require a lot more resources I assume. But I > > > think the cold start time needs to be brought down to a maximum of > > > around 2 seconds. > > > > It actually doesn't matter in many cases if an application is used by > > > millions of users every day or only seldom by a few people. The load > > > time for webpages is usually extremely important regardless the amount > > > of traffic to a website. Each user's experience counts. -- 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-appeng...@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.
