Fantastic post. Thanks for clarifying what an instance was! On Sep 3, 12:32 pm, stevep <prosse...@gmail.com> wrote: > I had spent most of the night wondering about task queue's apparent > inefficiencies under Scheduler, and had planned to open a topic > related to it, but then read Joshua's post. > > THIS point made by Joshua is THE HEART of the issue:'...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"...' > > As Joshua suggests, there is likely a great deal of optimization > within an instance obtainable by elegantly utilizing TQs. Scheduler > today, however, seems quite inelegant (and unfortunately may remain > that way because instance optimization is markedly revenue and profit > negative for GAE). > > At this point, I would like to suggest that GAE employ a consultant > who is an expert with systems modeling with iThink. The current > opaqueness and complexity of Scheduler are an ideal situation for this > type of systems analysis.** > Link:http://www.iseesystems.com/softwares/Business/ithinkSoftware.aspx > > Please Google, can you give us some more help here. > > Thanks, > stevep > > ** not at all affiliated with iThink, but have developed some > financial analyses using iThink back in the day when I worked for HP. > It really is a great tool for situations like this, and you guys will > certainly find that there are some very experienced and capable > consultants who will do great things for you without too much time > needed from GAE personnel.
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