Hey Richard, Did you ever get an explanation / resolution for this? I have been seeing this same behavior across a lot of apps that I work with. We will see one or more queues just stop executing tasks for, typically, several minutes, but I have seen this last as long as 20 minutes.
Robert On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 10:19 PM, Richard Steventon <steven...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nick, > > I shared a private google docs spreadsheet with you detailing average > number of players per game for this year. > > Start at week 21. Column A = (server) time. Anytime the number of > players in a game suddenly goes to zero... is because the taskqueue > stopped running. > > When it restarts, one of two things happen: > 1) It clears the queue (NO spike in user numbers.... ie: all > unprocessed results from previous games get deleted/lost) > 2) It runs the queue (spike in the user count.... ie: all unprocessed > results from previous games get processed) > > -Bye > -Richard > > > On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Nicholas Verne <nve...@google.com> wrote: >> Please give us your app id so we can investigate. Also, it would help >> us if you could give some specific dates/times of outages. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Nick Verne >> >> On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 3:50 AM, Mind <steven...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I have an Android game whose server side is Python on AppEngine. >>> >>> The app processes the client requests. These requests result in a need to >>> update the client profile (player stats). I offload this to a task. >>> >>> Tasks run fine some days. On other days, the task queue randomly stops >>> running and refuses to process any tasks. Synchronous cron jobs also start >>> late or not at all during this time. >>> >>> Outages can last several minutes to 10's of minutes. They are not dependent >>> of the volume of client requests (I graph everything) or time of day. Some >>> days it happens with 20 clients connected ... and other days it is just fine >>> with over 200 clients connected at the same time. >>> >>> The statistics I don't care too much about, but I ALSO use tasks and CRON to >>> control game flow, cycle to the next game board/etc. So broken task queue >>> means all my Android user's game clients stop working. >>> >>> Has anyone else observed anything similar or got any suggestions ? >>> >>> -- >>> 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/-/2nvta8dI8gwJ. >>> 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.
