It's M/S, but thanks for the quick answer. Very appreciated! Cheers, Per
On Sep 7, 6:25 pm, Jon McAlister <jon...@google.com> wrote: > Hi Per, > > I'm going to make a wild guess here and assume you are using the High > Replication Datastore. Apps which have selected this are presently > running on a set of machines that have the properties you describe. > Rather than having idle instance processes evicted after some number > of minutes, they hang around for hours. This is because of the present > ratio of cpu to memory pressure on those machines; essentially, it's a > by-product of the present supply and demand for that subset of apps > and machines. > > It will certainly change but probably not for several months yet. > Eventually it will have the same behavioral patterns as you see for > M/S-D apps. > > If you'd like to keep one instance up always though, when the billing > rollout is complete you'll be able to set min-idle-instances=1. > > > > > > > > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 4:56 AM, Per <per.fragem...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > I just disabled the "always on" option for my QA application, wanting > > to experiment with the new pricing model. Instead, I set the max-idle > > to 1, and I defined a 300ms latency in the application settings. The > > QA box is rarely used, but since the Cron-Jobs keep running every 5 > > minutes to clean up stuff, there was always some base load. > > > I checked out the stats, and it turns out there was always one > > instance up in the past 24 hours, and the currently active instance is > > 11h old. That's perfect for me: the less instance restarts we have, > > the faster the app will react (since startup takes some 5 to 10 > > seconds). Overall, this QA box cost me a mere 1ct under the new > > pricing. Great news! > > > Is this too good to be true? When App Engine started out, new > > instances got killed after 60seconds, and it was officially prohibited > > to ping instances to keep it alive. Will that happen again? Or is it > > fine to consume the free 1 instance permanently? > > > Cheers, > > Per > > > -- > > 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.
