I believe so. Google has made it pretty clear that M/S is deprecated and life on M/S will continue to get worse and worse.
On Dec 2, 2011, at 10:54 AM, Rishi Arora wrote: > :) So I'm SOL, without HR? > > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Joshua Smith <joshuaesm...@charter.net> wrote: > You can't use 2.7 unless you migrate to HR. > > Once you migrate to HR, the datastore read timeouts go away. > > And then you don't need to migrate to 2.7. > > -Joshua > > On Dec 2, 2011, at 10:37 AM, Rishi Arora wrote: > > > Earlier this morning I had a situation where datastore reads were timing > > out. That's okay, and expected, given that I use a M/S datastore. > > However, the timeouts were of the order of 50 seconds, causing nearly 30 > > front-end instances to be spawned. My usual number of active front-end > > instances at that time of the day is about 5, peaking at 15 occasionally. > > This condition lasted only 3 minutes or so, and so, the cost impact was > > minimal. However, I can imagine that if this lasted an hour or more, I > > would incur a lot of costs while the downtime persists. I'm okay with such > > downtimes, as long as it only leads to my customers not being able to > > access my site. But if it also leads to unnecessary increases in costs, > > then it calls for further optimization. So, my loaded question is - how > > can I handle this with python2.5? Is python 2.7 the only answer? I > > imagine python2.7 will help because while a front-end is waiting for data > > store ops to complete, it can process other requests. But are there other > > ways of setting specific timeouts to datastore operations? So, if these > > operations are taking too long, I'd rather just return an error to the > > user, instead of letting my front-end run indefinitely. > > > > > > -- > > 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. -- 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.