hi greg, thank you for the explaination. yes the settings are a bit confusing and its not really clear what exactly to expect when setting the instances sliders.
andreas On Jan 4, 2012, at 7:52 PM, Gregory D'alesandre wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > I know this might be a bit confusing. The setting are saying that you want a > maximum of 2 idle instances and presumably a mininimum of 2 idle instances. > Idle instances are ready to serve traffic when it hits. Neither or these > dictate the number of Active Instances that you are using. Active instances > are instances currently processing requests. GAE spins up instances as > needed to serve traffic, I assume you had traffic spikes during the time that > more instances were spun up. The billed line showed you were only billed for > at most 2 of the idle instances (as you'd presumably set max idle to 2) but > you are still charged for all of the active instances that served the traffic. > > If you would rather GAE drop your traffic instead of serving it, set min > pending latency to a higher value and it means the scheduler will leave > requests in the queue longer before it tries to spin up an instance to handle > it. > > I hope that helps explain what happened and we do need to improve the > documentation about this, > > Greg D'Alesandre > Senior Product Manager, Google App Engine > > On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Andreas <a.schmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > if i set 2 resident and 2 idle i expect it to be max 4 and billed for max 4 > instances. > what i get is: > > > > where you can see that way too many instances are spin up when its not needed > at all. > i know im not the first and i actually didn't care as long as the graph did > show me that i was billed only for what i set. > this is not happening today and i really dont want or need to pay for someone > others bugs. > > > > On Jan 4, 2012, at 3:08 PM, sb wrote: > > > The idle instances that you have set control the amount instances that > > are available to serve when extra traffic hits your site. You are not > > the first person to be confused by this one. > > > > The documentation on this could probably do with something of an > > update. > > > > This page still have links to "Always on". > > http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/adminconsole/instances.html > > > > On Jan 4, 2:59 pm, Andreas <a.schmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> i set my instance scheduler to 2 resident and max 2 idle. and it worked > >> well till today. > >> > >> Screen shot 2012-01-04 at 2.53.14 PM.png > >> 115KViewDownload > >> > >> > >> > >> why am i getting billed for more than 2 instances? why are there up to 40 > >> instances in this graph? > >> > >> Screen shot 2012-01-04 at 2.51.56 PM.png > >> 64KViewDownload > >> > >> > >> > >> i know the instance scheduler is not working perfectly but i've never seen > >> such a spin up. > >> dont really care about how many instances are up but i really dont want to > >> be charged for more than i decided to be billed. > > > > -- > > 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.
