There are several threads discussing this. Before the new pricing goes into effect, the request scheduler is going to be overhauled so you should see fewer instances.
Here's one recent thread on this topic: http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/thread/e19434c4d7ccdf41/7aede121218826db#7aede121218826db Robert On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 04:17, maverick <zhihong....@gmail.com> wrote: > We recently make public our newly developed GAE site: www.LOCQL.com, > it is a new location based Q&A to help user ask and answer questions > about places. When we invited a few users yesterday, we noticed that > our instances suddenly went to 8 instance, and most of the instance > seemed to be idle there. > > We are kind of worry if this is the case, under the new price model we > will have trouble! Does anyone know what happened? Our site does > have many data store operations, and so far during the test we didn't > turn on the cache, but we are still a bit surprise about this. Can > anyone visit our site and advice is there anything obviously wrong > there? www.LOCQL.com, the site don't need to sign up, but we do need > you sign in with your facebook. > > Thanks in advanced! > > -- > 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.
