Hi, Through a task queue, we manage calls from GAE to an external system, which is fully-scalable but takes minutes to do so. The task queue rate is therefore set to 200/s.
So what happens is that sometimes we get bursts of activity, and the task queue sends 200 requests at once: the vast majority fails in the external system as it can't handle this sudden request in load. But the external system doesn't start scaling up as there are no more requests coming and it's scaling based on the CPU load. Then suddenly you get another burst of requests from the task queue retrying, and then again the majority fails and so on. So how can we configure a task queue to have a very high rate *but* prevent it to get to this rate too fast? I noticed the bucket size parameter, but I'm not sure how to use it properly. Thanks, - Pol -- 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.
