The scheduling is completely different for backends, and if you're using only one instance there's simply no autoscale scheduling. Requests are simply put into a waiting queue 'till the backend is free (or they time out).
-- alex On Thursday, July 12, 2012 2:29:52 PM UTC+2, Marcel Manz wrote: > > After experimenting with various F1-F4 frontends, I meanwhile have > migrated the workload of my app to public facing B1 backends, so it can be > accessed remotely. > > As you can see from the attached screenshot the latency has improved > greatly compared to using frontends. I now have again approx 150ms latency > compared to up to 1 second during the last days using frontends. > > Not sure if this is because backends operate in a new / not so busy > cluster or if simply the scheduler for backend traffic is handling it with > less delay. It's obvious that there must be a difference. > > > -- 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/-/utc2-QSe4QYJ. 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.