Here's a little more on what Adrian has talked:
https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/thread/260e7cefc6e5d482
It's definitely not for every case, but it might be yours!

On Nov 7, 2:14 pm, Andrei Cosmin Fifiiţă <andrei.fifi...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Well, most of my CPU usage is due to tasks background work (about 80%) and
> also, a large number of datastore writes influences a rise in costs.
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> On 7 November 2011 17:29, Adrian Scott <adr...@coderbuddy.com> wrote:
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> > I dropped ours from 3 to 2 minimum idle instances, and saw significant
> > drop in daily cost.
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> > 7-9 user requests per minute shouldn't be too much of a hit (depending on
> > how much time is used to serve them and the background tasks they spawn of
> > course)...
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> > On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Ice13ill <andrei.fifi...@gmail.com>wrote:
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> >> Hello, my app has about 7-9 user requests per minute and my settings
> >> for idle instances and pending latencies are set to Automatic.
> >> These requests also trigger tasks creation (for some background
> >> computing and datastore writes).
> >> I need some basic advice for managing my settings on idle instances
> >> and pending latencies (at least...) so that my costs are kept as low
> >> as possible, according to the new pricing model (articles, other group
> >> threads, or documentation links would be very appreciated)
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