[google-appengine] Re: Enabling edge cache - what am I missing

2012-03-11 Thread cz
FYI, here's Brandon's post: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-appengine/6xAV2Q5x8AU/discussion and two related issues you may be inclined to star (with more info in the comments as well): http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2258 http://code.google.com/p/googlea

[google-appengine] Re: 500 errors + high latency + please communicate with us

2012-03-10 Thread cz
My app (adb2) is getting over quota errors and is no longer serving requests. This has never happened before. According to the dashboard my app has used 34 instance hours to process under 100 requests which I can't imagine is possible under normal circumstances (especially since the app doesn't us

[google-appengine] Re: Is App Engine suddenly becoming more expensive???

2011-05-11 Thread cz
On May 11, 5:27 pm, Greg wrote: > Actually the way I see it is that Google has given us a free ride for > three years... Well, actually, Google got lots of developers to test their platform and various service API roll-outs for free for three years. It's been pretty much of a quid pro quo up un

[google-appengine] blobstore image.execute_transform returns empty data after resize if image is already at desired size

2011-02-17 Thread cz
I hope this is useful information for someone who has encountered this: If you upload an image via the blobstore that is, say, 1000x800 and then attempt to resize using the following: img = images.Image(blob_key=str(blob_key)) img.resize(1000,1000) image_data =

[google-appengine] Re: blobstore image.execute_transform returns empty data after resize if image is already at desired size

2011-02-17 Thread cz
sorry, there's a typo... the line: image_data = googimg.execute_transforms(output_encoding=images.JPEG) should be image_data = img.execute_transforms(output_encoding=images.JPEG) the issue is the same though... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Googl

[google-appengine] what happened to the appengine svn repository?

2010-09-06 Thread cz
It appears to be stuck at version 1.3.5 It has been useful in the past mainly for use in Eclipse as a reference with Pydev, but lately it's been out of date so much that it kind of seems pointless to even make the repository public. I'm assuming there must be some kind of Byzantine build process at

[google-appengine] Re: Gae is down ?

2009-06-26 Thread cz
Can't upload a new version either: 500 internal server error The dashboard is inaccessible as well. App is slow but works. On Jun 26, 9:55 pm, gg wrote: > Seems to be just the admin... > > On Jun 26, 9:52 pm, Tom Wu wrote: > > >  Server Error > > > A server error has occurred. > > > Return to A

[google-appengine] Is it possible to delete or rename a named task queue?

2009-06-21 Thread cz
I tried just removing the queue name from queue.yaml but the queue still seems to exist with a rate and bucket size set to 'paused'. If it isn't now, will it be possible to delete or rename queues in the future? The reason I ask is because I created a test queue with a crazy name and would rather

[google-appengine] Re: Just released: Python SDK 1.2.3

2009-06-18 Thread cz
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[google-appengine] Re: Subversion not latest?

2009-04-25 Thread cz
Hi Jeff, This seems to happen on pretty much every release. I sort of figured the repository would always have the latest and the zip/installer download would, if anything, trail it slightly. Otherwise what is the point of exposing the svn repository if it's out of date with respect to the actual

[google-appengine] Re: Does TOS allow multiple versions of one app that do different things?

2009-03-27 Thread cz
fferent > versions. > > Just my 2cts. > > Robert > > On Mar 27, 12:50 am, "Tom M." wrote: > > > A very clever solution. > > > On Mar 26, 6:31 pm, cz wrote: > > > > Awesome, thanks Jeff. I think doing it this way would make my app use >

[google-appengine] Re: Does TOS allow multiple versions of one app that do different things?

2009-03-26 Thread cz
Awesome, thanks Jeff. I think doing it this way would make my app use less resources in general which is good for everybody. - Claude On Mar 26, 2:25 pm, Jeff S wrote: > Hi Claude, > > On Mar 25, 8:27 pm, cz wrote: > > > > > The reason I ask this is for the following s

[google-appengine] Does TOS allow multiple versions of one app that do different things?

2009-03-25 Thread cz
The reason I ask this is for the following scenario: My main app uses Django 1.x and has fairly low, but quite useful ;), traffic thus often requiring a cold start. It incurs significant startup time and so the initial requests are quite slow. The pages also contain lots of images uploaded by user

[google-appengine] Re: Cold app startup stats in case you're curious

2009-03-25 Thread cz
ms CPU quota. When it was part of > the main Django app, it would take over 2000 ms CPU quota. > > BTW I'm fairly convinced that memcached data doesn't get flushed out. > > On Mar 24, 6:27 am, cz wrote: > > > I added some timing code to see how expensive a cold

[google-appengine] Cold app startup stats in case you're curious

2009-03-23 Thread cz
I added some timing code to see how expensive a cold app startup is. This is a Django1.x app so YMMV. The typical numbers are: Zipimport of Django: 180ms Appengine-django-helper monkeypatching: 430ms Misc imports, app-specific patching, etc: 20ms -

[google-appengine] Re: help me about Django' url setting!!!!!!!

2009-03-14 Thread cz
see: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/middleware/#module-django.middleware.common http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/601/ in your settings.py: APPEND_SLASH = False On Mar 14, 5:01 am, gxtiou wrote: > i don't  want it to redirect to: "http://www.abc.com/login/"; added > "/"  in > the

[google-appengine] Re: Application instances seem to be too aggressively recycled

2009-03-10 Thread cz
Actually, that is normal behavior. This has been discussed in previous threads. GAE seems to aggressively purge it's app cache, average app lifetime appears to be under 2 seconds. Appengine-patch may be marginally faster but both require Django1.x to be imported via zipimport, which is pretty expe

[google-appengine] Thanks GAE team

2009-03-10 Thread cz
The datastore seems to be unusually zippy today, whatever you googly types did yesterday sure worked. Beautiful! thanks, - Claude --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to

[google-appengine] Latency problem still really a problem

2009-03-06 Thread cz
Our app is still experiencing at least double the latency as compared to last week and the app is basically unusable. I'm really concerned about this since the GAE team has stated that the latency issue has been resolved. This is so disappointing if the current performance is considered to be fine

[google-appengine] Re: 502 Server Errors after upgrade?

2009-03-04 Thread cz
Latency is still pretty much killing our site. Dynamic pages that took 1-3 seconds (which is bad enough) before the slowdown still take 10-20 seconds. The app dashboard is super sluggish as well (as Nick pointed out). I'm hoping this means that the GAE team is still working on it (if so, thanks gu

[google-appengine] Re: 502 Server Errors after upgrade?

2009-03-03 Thread cz
yep, our app still quite a bit slower than usual but slightly better than earlier today. zipimport still seems especially slow... I'm wondering if using non- trivial 3rd party frameworks such as Django 1.x is such a good idea on GAE. With this kind of latency I'm thinking maybe not. Perhaps for hi

[google-appengine] Re: Profiling application, dev vs. prod

2009-02-20 Thread cz
I think you could upload a different version (set it app.yaml) with profiling enabled and test using that version (on your live datastore). The default (non-profiled) version would still be what the public normally sees. On Feb 20, 5:51 am, Jarek Zgoda wrote: > Since enabling profiler output is

[google-appengine] Re: New Limits for Several App Engine Operations

2009-02-16 Thread cz
It would indeed be great to have some kind of way to store big binary blobs such as images etc. that are larger than 1mb without having to resort to using a third party storage solution like Amazon's S3. I'm under the impression though that Google is working on this (see roadmap). On Feb 16, 9:36

[google-appengine] Re: New Limits for Several App Engine Operations

2009-02-14 Thread cz
Awesome possum! Although having to deal with the more restrictive quotas before was probably a good thing in that it made us think more about efficiency and scalability. thanks, - Claude On Feb 14, 11:36 am, Nash-t wrote: > Nah, this is your reward for betting with Google and it is just going >

[google-appengine] Re: gae 1.1.9 + appengine_django = ?

2009-02-10 Thread cz
Ah ha, it turns out that you are correct Alexander, my appengine tree is checked out to ./.google_appengine and invisible files inside the app directory are of course in the skip-file list... On Feb 10, 9:45 pm, cz wrote: > Thanks, I was looking at those threads, but I think my problem

[google-appengine] Re: gae 1.1.9 + appengine_django = ?

2009-02-10 Thread cz
Thanks, I was looking at those threads, but I think my problem is unrelated since the module in question is accessible via PYTHONPATH and shouldn't have anything to do with skipped files. Also, as I stated previously, I have the latest version of GAE and the django helper checked out (r41 and r74

[google-appengine] Re: gae 1.1.9 + appengine_django = ?

2009-02-10 Thread cz
Oh, and here's what the beginning of main.py looks like: # Standard Python imports. import os import sys import logging import settings # Fix (hack) for missing unlink if os.name == 'nt': os.unlink = lambda: None from appengine_django import InstallAppengineHelperForDjango InstallAppengineHe

[google-appengine] gae 1.1.9 + appengine_django = ?

2009-02-10 Thread cz
I'm sure this is something stupid on my end but I just can't see it... everything worked fine until I checked out the latest versions of GAE and appengine helper (r41, r74). On startup (in main.py) I get this exception: ...\appengine_django\__init__.py in InstallModelForm() 515 """Replace D

[google-appengine] Re: SDK version 1.1.9 Released

2009-02-10 Thread cz
Um, this might be a dumb question, but the SVN source tree doesn't seem to reflect the latest version. It looks like it's stuck at r34 which according to the release notes is version 1.1.8. Is there a new repository or am I hallucinating? I usually just get the latest version via SVN but this seem

[google-appengine] Re: SDK version 1.1.9 Released

2009-02-09 Thread cz
This is really great! I just want you (google engineers) how much I appreciate your work on this. GAE is a really fun platform to use. Despite all the whining (a lot from me) it's turning into a great product, plus the fact that it's free (well, for smaller apps) is amazing. Well, ok, one more wh

[google-appengine] Re: GAE Team, How does the import cache work? How do we reduce custom django overhead?

2009-02-09 Thread cz
I have noticed that the app cache does not keep things around for much more than a few seconds, so if your site gets relatively little traffic it will have more problems than if it gets heavier traffic (paradoxically). Also, if your app returns pages with many images or other embedded content that

[google-appengine] Re: Google Analytics & GAE

2009-02-09 Thread cz
use appcfg without specifying severity to get just request logs: appcfg.py --email= request_logs On Feb 9, 12:45 pm, Greg wrote: > On Feb 10, 2:16 am, Duncan wrote: > > > Logs generated on the server tell you how often particular pages have > > been requested: that includes requests from we

[google-appengine] Re: Reminder: App Engine chat time, tonight 7-8PM PST

2009-01-07 Thread cz
Hi Marzia, I've been unable to make the chat times, is there a transcript archived somewhere? Thanks, - Claude On Jan 7, 11:56 am, Marzia Niccolai wrote: > Details about this and future chat times can be found > here:http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/thread/... --~--

[google-appengine] Re: Google Team: Please Make Django 1.0 A Higher Priority

2008-12-18 Thread cz
uded with the default frameworks there would be a high likelihood that it is always in memory. I'm using Django 1.0 now on appengine without any other issues besides that. CPU quotas are really tight right now, so it makes sense to minimize expensive events. That's

[google-appengine] Re: Google Team: Please Make Django 1.0 A Higher Priority

2008-12-18 Thread cz
So far, for me App Engine has worked pretty well. The issue regarding Django 1.0 is a little more complicated than "just use zipimport and django helper" which is the standard response. While this works and is in fact what I use, there are some issues. One is that if your app doesn't have a lot of

[google-appengine] Re: Reminder: Scheduled Maintenance This Evening

2008-11-11 Thread cz
I'm getting 404/not found for http://appengine.google.com/ which was how I accessed the dashboard up until last night. Also, my app (adb2) is returning spurious 500 server errors and random 404/not found, but it worked fine up until the system maintenance period. This app was last deployed around

[google-appengine] Re: Google App Engine Roadmap - Now Published

2008-10-23 Thread cz
This is fantastic, thanks Marzia! There also seems to be a fair amount of clamor for beefing up the Image API, any chance that might be in the pipeline? Also, I would like to suggest that the documentation be fattened up, especially concerning the inner workings of datastore/BigTable and related

[google-appengine] Re: a way to determine image size would be greatly appreciated

2008-10-11 Thread cz
t; This sounds a bit like the following feature > request:http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=435but your > idea may be slightly different. Feel free to star this one, or file a > new issue :) > > Thank you, > > Jeff > > On Oct 9, 10:25 pm, cz &l

[google-appengine] a way to determine image size would be greatly appreciated

2008-10-09 Thread cz
If there was just one thing to add to the Image api, a way to determine the image size would be highest on my list. It just seems so easy to add... would it not be possible to stuff a couple of integers (height,width) along with the image data into the image service response ProtocolMessage? Mayb

[google-appengine] Re: appcfg.py and 500 Server Error

2008-10-06 Thread cz
The offending index eventually was purged and I'm now able to upload... It appears that the offline processing of indexes is just kind of slow. - Claude --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engi

[google-appengine] Re: appcfg.py and 500 Server Error

2008-10-05 Thread cz
Hello, I'm having the same problem. I get 500 errors when trying to vacuum or upload indexes. Initially it seemed to be caused by some indexes being in the 'building' state. Once those eventually changed to 'serving' I was able to vacuum the indexes, but now the deleted one appears to be stuck i