Idle Resident Instances are instances waiting with your application code pre-loaded and warmed up, but never actually accept requests. When an Idle Resident instance is needed by your application due to high traffic or CPU intensive operations, your Resident instance will turn into a Dynamic instance and start accepting new requests.
Once you have your new Dynamic instance handling your incoming requests, App Engine will create a new Resident instance in order to maintain your 'Minimum Idle Instances' setting in your 'appengine-web.xml <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/java/config/appref#scaling_elements>' or 'app.yaml <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/appref#scaling_elements>'. The Dynamic instances will then turn down when there is a period of no traffic, in order to save you money. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/8a6a39cc-108b-42d1-8a2b-c8d86a197651%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
