Do we know for sure that front ends are any faster? Their individual throughput limits might just be masked by having more of them spin up.
- Kris I really don't know why backends are slow. Maybe it has something to > do with the request queueing system? Throughput sucks even when > backends are doing noops. Maybe "increased concurrency" would allow > more requests to travel through the queueing system at once... but > it's hard to imagine this helping out the actual server process at > all. More timeslicing and synchronization on a cpu- and memory-bound > problem will reduce performance, not improve it. > > Jeff > -- 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/-/o0pnDf-xnpwJ. 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.
