Hello Andrew, Here's a App Engine Groups discussion that is very similar to your question (I posted a detailed and cited comment in the replies): https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/google-appengine/5KRMpQ-9UQc
The short version is, what you're seeing is intended behavior. The idle (also called resident) instance is there to buffer incoming requests; the dynamic instance is launched and run to handle standard traffic. ----------------- -Vinny P Technology & Media Advisor Chicago, IL My Go side project: http://invalidmail.com/ On Thursday, June 6, 2013 2:39:21 PM UTC-5, Andrew Brogdon wrote: > > I've got a small App Engine site built in Java, and I don't understand the > traffic splitting behavior that's going on. I have it set to maintain one > idle instance and spin up others as is sees fit. This, however, is what I > see in the "Instances" section of the dashboard: > > *QPS Latency Requests Errors Age * > 0.000 0.0 ms 10 0 1 day, 1:56:27 (Idle) > 0.083 162.0 ms 541 0 4:03:04 (Dynamic) > > My idle instance is somehow dodging work, while the dynamic one is > handling almost all the requests. Why is this happening? If I'm only > going to be making use of one instance, I'd prefer to avoid having two, for > obvious reasons. > > -Andrew > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
