Yes, that certainly seems possible. But it's a lot more trouble than just having a way to say to the scheduler, "run these when you have an idle instance with nothing better to do," or "DO NOT spin up an instance just to handle this task"
On Sep 3, 2011, at 12:14 PM, peterk wrote: > You can pull from task queues instead of having them push, right? That > could help a lot where task queues are the source of instance spin up. > I'd even be happy to dedicated a back-end to task queue pull-work if > it was necessary - at least that is totally under your control. > > > > On Sep 3, 5:05 pm, Joshua Smith <joshuaesm...@charter.net> wrote: >> I also identified task queues as the source of my excessive instances. I >> suspect this is a quite common issue, and together with datastore access >> bugs (sorry, but you never should have written it like that) like the one >> you found, are conspiring to make a lot of these crazy new billing numbers. >> >> I think a lot of people just need to take a deep breath and look at their >> apps the way you did. It's certainly a lot less work than migrating to EC2. >> >> On Sep 3, 2011, at 6:16 AM, Emlyn wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> Hi all, >> >>> I don't think I've posted here before, but I've been an appengine user >>> for a while now (closing on 2 years? Is that even possible?). And like >>> many, I had a rude shock with the new pricing (going from $0.50/day to >>> $50/day). >> >>> However, I dug into what I'm actually being charged for, and I think >>> it's all actually in my control to sort out, and that in itself is >>> sort of fascinating. I wrote a long blog post on this, which people >>> might find interesting. >> >>> The Amazing Story Of Appengine And The Two Orders Of Magnitude >>> http://point7.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/the-amazing-story-of-appengine... >> >>> I'd be really grateful for feedback, especially if I've gotten >>> anything wildly wrong. I haven't actually made any of the changes that >>> I've foreshadowed in the post, that's for the next day or two, and >>> I'll write a followup article on how it goes. >> >>> Thanks in advance for having a look! >> >>> -- >>> Emlyn >> >>> http://my.syyn.cc- Synchonise Google+, Facebook, WordPress and Google >>> Buzz posts, >>> comments and all. >>> http://point7.wordpress.com- My blog >>> Find me on Facebook and Buzz >> >>> -- >>> 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.
