Are you sure this is something Google is doing, and not something another memcache client in your same data center is doing?
A more charitable explanation for all this is that memcache performance is hard to guarantee without explicit allocations (i.e. the paid option), and that you've been lucky up until recently. - Kris On Tuesday, October 8, 2013 10:24:12 AM UTC-7, James Gilliam wrote: > > Memcache continues to perform poorly; I suspect they are making many > changes to it. > > Saturday was awful -- aggressively purging memcache, Sunday was better, > Monday was worse than Sunday. > > At this point, not sure what to do ... are we dealing with just code > instability or some fundamental change? > > Really wish GAE would test these changes before deploying them. > > Or at least alert the community to whatever changes they are making. > > On Sunday, October 6, 2013 11:57:02 AM UTC-7, James Gilliam wrote: >> >> GAE has drastically changed the way MEMCACHE works; as a result my >> application (ogeekcom) overall usage jumped by approximately 5 times with >> the same approximate bandwidth output. Like a 400% increase in price. >> >> Specifically, they are purging shared memcache very aggressively -- >> possible in an effort to force people to signup for paid memcache. >> >> As a result of this change, my application is using many more datastore >> reads and many more instances to compensate for the poor memcache >> performance. >> >> Like always, this was done without any announcement at all. >> >> If they made this change to increase make applications cost more to run, >> it is illegal. >> >> There is no problem with them offering a premium service for memcache, >> but it is illegal to degrade the previous service to force people into the >> paid model. >> >> -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
