FYI, my app is cruising along just fine with one instance that has been 
alive for 2 days.

I feel your pain, brother.

David

On Thursday, December 27, 2012 12:12:27 PM UTC-7, Carl Schroeder wrote:
>
> Also FYI, this whole issue could be resolved if you would stop sending 
> user facing requests to cold uninitialized instances in java GAE. Handling 
> user requests in ways that you know will cause 20+ second response times is 
> pathological. 
>
> All new development for us on GAE is blocked until this issue can be 
> resolved. 
>
> On Thursday, December 27, 2012 11:01:30 AM UTC-8, Carl Schroeder wrote:
>>
>> I am still seeing java instances decomissioned after sub minute quiet 
>> periods.  Given that it takes 20-30 seconds to spin one java instance up, 
>> you should probably leave them alive for a bit longer than a few seconds. 
>> Otherwise, for low traffic profiles, page loads for GAE java can take up to 
>> 30 seconds. God help us if the scheduler thinks I need 2 new instances spun 
>> up in series rather than parallel.
>>
>> FYI, people don't wait around for a minute for pages to load. They use 
>> other services.
>>
>> Once again, due to unannounced pathological behavior of the instancing on 
>> GAE, we are wasting our time re-implementing our java infrastructure on 
>> AWS. At least, I hope it is a waste of our time...
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, December 25, 2012 4:00:26 PM UTC-8, Francois Masurel wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Saket,
>>>
>>> Thanx for investigating the problem.
>>>
>>> Things seems to have improved significantly these last few days.
>>>
>>> On our Neustar reports, for an average page loading, we can see that we 
>>> went from 
>>> 6.65s<https://monitor.wpm.neustar.biz/reports/graph_log/#/?monitorIds=8bc3b100-b372-11e1-a749-9848e1660ab3&timeRange=last_24_hours&functionType=loadtime&graphType=line_chart&view=loadtime>
>>>  (12/16) 
>>> to 8.94s (12/18) and back to 
>>> 2.57s<https://monitor.wpm.neustar.biz/reports/graph_log/#/?monitorIds=8bc3b100-b372-11e1-a749-9848e1660ab3&timeRange=last_24_hours&functionType=loadtime&graphType=line_chart&view=loadtime>
>>>  (12/23).
>>>
>>> I can confirm that we don't see as much instance warm ups in our logs as 
>>> we were used before, we went from every 3-4 minutes to 20-25 minutes.
>>>
>>> I definitely think things have changed on Google side as we haven't 
>>> changed anything on our side.
>>>
>>> But some strange things are still going on at the moment (12/26 0:52 
>>> UTC+1) as a dynamic instance has been up for more than 4 hours but has 
>>> served only one request (cf. screenshot below).
>>>
>>> Thanx again Saket for your help.
>>>
>>> François
>>>
>>>
>>> <https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-ARDAA2Yu-NY/UNo-Bgn9SpI/AAAAAAAAyN8/NNC4QLzi93g/s1600/Instances+-+VinoCities+-+Google+Chrome.jpg>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Monday, December 24, 2012 11:54:48 PM UTC+1, Saket Kumar wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Francois,
>>>>
>>>> Are you still facing this issue? I did a small test for your 
>>>> application and didn't find anything too bad from scheduler's perspective. 
>>>> I'm trying to understand if it was a temporary glitch that was causing the 
>>>> issue or something is wrong with scheduler's algorithm. Or if scheduler 
>>>> doesn't spin instances properly if QPS is low.
>>>>
>>>> Here is series of events- 
>>>>
>>>> a.) Single resident was serving for 1 day, 03:26:37 minutes, serving 
>>>> 9600 request
>>>> b.) After serving 96 requests with raised QPS, new instance was created.
>>>> c.) QPS lowered and the new instance was allowed to die.
>>>> d.) Again the QPS was increased and new instance was created. Both 
>>>> instances were handling requests at this point.
>>>> e.) QPS lowered again, newly formed instance dies and older instance 
>>>> starts serving 100% of the requests.
>>>>
>>>> -
>>>> Saket
>>>>
>>>> On Saturday, 22 December 2012 12:18:00 UTC+1, Francois Masurel wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Christina,
>>>>>
>>>>> For my personal case, my production app-id is "vncts1" with billing 
>>>>> enabled.
>>>>>
>>>>> And the related issue is : 
>>>>> https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7865
>>>>>
>>>>> As I said at the beginning of this thread, there are quite a few other 
>>>>> threads related to this problem :
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/google-appengine/cJcOrOE4JDc/uKFBbylFOxIJ
>>>>>
>>>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/8KiXRP-oU5I/Jf5kzcvyIiwJ
>>>>>
>>>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/NR_oV4znvks/KtkSmVQD2IgJ
>>>>>
>>>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/_znmrJwFMuM/V2epYOQ19L4J
>>>>>
>>>>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/google-appengine/hg3BH8WOGWA/discussion
>>>>>
>>>>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/google-appengine/UN5oCWkPsaA/discussion
>>>>>
>>>>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/google-appengine/RneC9qDbeRE/discussion
>>>>>
>>>>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/google-appengine/sLZcZoK-A3Y/discussion
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanx for you help.
>>>>>
>>>>> François
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Saturday, December 22, 2012 3:15:05 AM UTC+1, Christina Ilvento 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Would you mind sending app-ids that you're seeing this behavior for? 
>>>>>> Please feel free to send them to me directly or to link any issues you 
>>>>>> have 
>>>>>> filed in our issue tracker so that we can investigate.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Christina
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Carl Schroeder <
>>>>>> schroede...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've been sacrificing unicorns to dark powers...clearly I have been 
>>>>>>> doing it wrong.
>>>>>>> That probably explains some unusual behavior in other parts of my 
>>>>>>> app.
>>>>>>> AFK pentagrams. :(
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thursday, December 20, 2012 7:51:35 PM UTC-8, Cesium wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Ready for this?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Now, a single instance survives for hours and hours, happily 
>>>>>>>> serving requests with the usual low latency response time.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> This is just what Sir Brandon wrote about. Mysterious changes in 
>>>>>>>> the system's behavior.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I should note that I sprinkled rainbow Skittles across the floor to 
>>>>>>>> attract the unicorns. They're back!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> David
>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 

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