I can confirm this problem too, specially when a new instance is spinning up.
But the erros are sporadically happenning. Some instances starts in 3-6 seconds, others throws DeadLine/HardDeadLine exceptions after lots of time ... I opened a production issue, sine no changes in the app code were made. Our app is using Java, single-threaded, on M/S. I know, this is the worse case possible :-/ We are enabling threads this week, and planing the migration to HR... Best Regards, -Ronoaldo -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/wEweTQMTca8J. 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.