Brandon, I do not believe this is a network issue, since each of the 300+ clients connects from different networks across the US, with a few overseas. These peaks seem to be caused by the Google App Engine itself.
Thanks, Nathan On Thursday, May 17, 2012 3:34:58 PM UTC-7, Brandon Wirtz wrote: > > If you had network issues between locations, your traffic could be less > evenly distributed, and would as a result make your app “peakier”. > > Set your max pending latency higher and your cost won’t fluctuate when > network latency changes the instantaneous request rate. > > > > > > *From:* google-appengine@googlegroups.com [mailto: > google-appengine@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Nathan Skone > *Sent:* Thursday, May 17, 2012 2:52 PM > *To:* google-appengine@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* [google-appengine] Unexplained traffic loss > > > > We have over 300 machines distributed across the US calling an API once a > minute, which means we should always have a base level of traffic of at > least 5 or 6 requests per second. However, today we are seeing pits in our > requests per second graph that show the traffic dropping to zero, then > spiking directly afterward. We have not deployed any new code recently, or > otherwise touched our application in any way. > > > > This traffic pattern has doubled our costs compared to a normal day. A > screenshot is attached. > > > > Thanks, > > Nathan Skone > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/NBgU5Omj9hQJ. > 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/Eib5EbP7qdMJ. 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.