To add to what Josh said, the billing rule states that front-end instances won't incur any idle charges after idling for 15 minutes, even if they stay running.
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Joshua Smith <joshuaesm...@charter.net>wrote: > It's been pretty conclusively determined on these groups that those extra > instances don't cost you anything, as long as you keep the idle instances > slider over to the left in App Settings. It has also been stated by our > google overlords that these freebie instances are more prevalent in the HRD > cluster because it is underutilized. As more apps move from M/S to HRD, > they expect that the freebies will drop off. > > On Sep 11, 2011, at 10:05 AM, JH wrote: > > > I have a question about the new scheduler. Before HRD the scheduler > > use to tear down instances very aggressively. Now it doesn't appear > > to. I have some hobby apps that may get no traffic at all for hours, > > however, the scheduler keeps 1 instance alive. It seems to me after > > 15 minutes of no activity the scheduler killed instances before HRD. > > Now I see 1 idle instance for long periods. I didn't mind before but > > now that it costs us is there any way to get the scheduler to be a bit > > more agressive at killing instances? > > > > Thanks, > > > > -- > > 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. > > -- 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.
