I am not quite outraged, but I did star the issue :)

It looks like the status is 'started', so that is a good sign...

On Thursday, May 17, 2012 9:37:37 AM UTC-4, jon wrote:
>
> This is actually a GAE bug. According to GAE documentation the 
> memcache service should by default log and ignore infrastructure 
> faults (which would be a very sensible thing to do) but it doesn't. 
>
> I opened a ticket 6 months ago (yes, half a year!) 
> http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6236 
>
> There is no excuse for leaving this broken for so long. It's an 
> extremely harmful bug and yet easy to fix. I've been raising this 
> issue every chance I get but the response from fellow GAE developers 
> on this group has been muted. We should be outraged, people :-) 
> Seriously, this bug can take down any of your sites if it happens to 
> link up with a dodgy memcache service. From experience this can last 
> up to half an hour. 
>
> On May 17, 8:36 pm, Per <per.fragem...@gmail.com> wrote: 
> > Hi Mathieu, 
> > 
> > not sure if you're aware of this (it took me a while as well) but you 
> need 
> > to design your application so it doesn't flinch even when memcache is 
> > unavailable. Try-catch everything. We had an issue at the same time as 
> you 
> > as well, and it turned out that in one part of the application we had 
> also 
> > forgotten to try-catch memcache errors. Just keep improving until it's 
> 100% 
> > robust. Because memcache just isn't. A large scale downtime would 
> probably 
> > show up on the system status page, but local issues won't. 
> > 
> > Cheers, 
> > Per 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Wednesday, May 16, 2012 7:14:49 PM UTC+2, Mathieu Clavel wrote: 
> > 
> > > Memcache is now working as expected. 
> > > Problem was from 16h to 18h (UTC+2) 
> > 
> > > Mathieu 
> > 
> > > Le mercredi 16 mai 2012 17:49:45 UTC+2, Mathieu Clavel a écrit : 
> > 
> > >> Hello, 
> > 
> > >> My production application is currently having memcache problem. 
> > >> Nothing is visible in the global appengine system status : 
> > >>https://code.google.com/status/appengine/ 
> > 
> > >> Error is : 
> > 
> > >> Caused by: 
> com.google.appengine.api.memcache.MemcacheServiceException: Memcache put: 
> Error setting single item (...) 
> > 
> > >> Nothing is working : Jasper also has error : 
> > 
> > >> org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspFactoryImpl internalGetPageContext: 
> Exception initializing page context 
> > >> com.google.appengine.api.memcache.MemcacheServiceException: Memcache 
> put: Error setting single item (_ahsXuelLhc5ClPxy8Dra2vPUQ) 
> > 
> > >> My application name is oav-agz. 
> > 
> > >> Regards, 
> > 
> > >> Mathieu

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