I love my Raspberry Pi and think this is a neat idea! While an interesting project to benchmark the dev_appserver vs an F1 instance I'm not sure how to accurately measure performance. What tests do you have in mind?
The reason I ask is that I have a **very** index happy application and running request on my dev_appserver server (to save hundreds of entities each creating 20+ indexes) it basically locks up the dev_appserver on my quad core desktop and takes over 100 times longer to finish the DB operations than an F1 instance takes. Similarly, another intense thing I do to my app is to spawn a LOT of tasks at my backend which spend most of their time waiting on urlfetch responses before doing something trivial. On the dev_appserver these requests seem to be blocking and processed serially but in production they are processed simultaneously. I'm curious how you plan to benchmark the raspberry pi dev_appserver vs the production stack. -Robert Fischer www.DealScorcher.com On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Bryce Cutt <pandas...@gmail.com> wrote: > Some of you are probably aware of the Raspberry Pi single board > computer<http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs> that > runs Linux and Python quite well. When I first heard of it I had lots of > ideas of what to use it for and one of those was to run App Engine on it. > Why? Because I can. :) > > My Raspberry Pi arrived in the mail yesterday and today I got the Python > App Engine SDK running on it. The Pi has a 700Mhz ARM processor and 256MB > of RAM and my small Debian (Raspbian) install has about 190MBs of RAM free > once it is up and running. I am not running a desktop environment, just > bash. > > My initial tests have worked out pretty well with simple apps and as time > allows I am going to try building a larger app and deploying to the > production servers directly from the Pi. I am curious how the performance > compares to a standard F1 App Engine production instance. I may run some > tests to see. > > The Raspberry Pi was developed as an inexpensive device to help teach kids > how to program. App Engine is a great platform for developing web > applications. I think it is a good match at an incredibly low price. > > -- > 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/-/14lnjwk1RQEJ. > 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.
