I see this bug as well. Dedicated memcache is in preview release, so bugs like this shouldn't be surprising.
I filed an issue: https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10108 On Friday, October 11, 2013 10:42:18 AM UTC-4, James Gilliam wrote: > > Now there is a billing issue with memcache premium. It goes along with > 0.00 all day and then plunk all of it at once. It doesn't add the cost > hour by hour -- clearly a bug. The next day, they plunk like 18 hours right > at the beginning of the day, which is rolled back later in the day. But > they show the WRONG billing all through the day and I am afraid they will > deactivate my application with these errors. > > In my opinion, they don't do any real beta testing before plunking stuff > out. My guess is they let developers push whenever they want, at least > that is what is suggested with the types of error they create. Saturday is > the day the love pushing out bad code. > > They should make premium memcache free until they fix the problems and let > us opt in for less than 1 gig --- 1 gig of memcache is way TOO much for > many apps and they have made free shared memcache worthless -- their plan > all along imo. > > 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.
