Out of curiosity, why? Generally speaking, the more instances your app has the more likely it is that a new request will be serviced quickly. You are not charged for the additional instances, unless they are doing something (in which case you probably needed them anyway).
Robert On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 22:35, brianl <licht...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just checked my Instances allocations... Seeing the 3 'Always On' > instances and 5 Dynamic instances. The 5 Dynamic instances seems > unusually high. So guess I have 8 instances total. There's very > little traffic to the app to cause so many instances to be running. > I'd like to be just running the 3 'Always On' instances and no Dynamic > instances, is this possible? If so where's the setting to have NO > Dynamic instances running when 'Always On' is enabled? > > > > > On Jan 17, 1:41 pm, "Brandon Wirtz" <drak...@digerat.com> wrote: >> Always on helps if you only need 3 instances to keep things running. If >> your app requires 4 instances be running all the time you won't see any >> benefit. If on the other hand you serve one request an hour, you'd see a >> lot of benefit on that one request. >> >> Without knowing what you are doing, or why you are doing it we can't help >> you diagnose if what you are doing is sane and rational, or if it is >> something in your design that is causing the issue. >> >> From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com >> [mailto:google-appengine@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of brianl >> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 11:53 AM >> To: google-appengine@googlegroups.com >> Subject: [google-appengine] Always On - Amount of Loading Requests the same >> >> According to the docs the 'Always On' feature mitigates the impact of >> loading requests. I've been running w/ the 'Always On' feature for several >> days. I thought I'd see far fewer loading requests, but it appears to be >> the same as before. There are still cases where I'll see loading requests >> just a few minutes apart. Most times I see loading requests occur about >> 50~60 minutes apart. So far I'm not seeing the benefit of the 'Always On' >> feature. It appears to be a waste of money. >> >> -- >> 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 >> athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
