Fantastic post. Thanks for clarifying what an instance was!
On Sep 3, 12:32 pm, stevep wrote:
> I had spent most of the night wondering about task queue's apparent
> inefficiencies under Scheduler, and had planned to open a topic
> related to it, but then read Joshua's post.
>
> THIS point made by Joshua is THE HEART of the issue:'...it's a lot
> more trouble than just having a way to say to the scheduler, "run
> these when you have an idle instance with nothing better to do," or
> "DO NOT spin up an instance just to handle this task"...'
>
> As Joshua suggests, there is likely a great deal of optimization
> within an instance obtainable by elegantly utilizing TQs. Scheduler
> today, however, seems quite inelegant (and unfortunately may remain
> that way because instance optimization is markedly revenue and profit
> negative for GAE).
>
> At this point, I would like to suggest that GAE employ a consultant
> who is an expert with systems modeling with iThink. The current
> opaqueness and complexity of Scheduler are an ideal situation for this
> type of systems analysis.**
> Link:http://www.iseesystems.com/softwares/Business/ithinkSoftware.aspx
>
> Please Google, can you give us some more help here.
>
> Thanks,
> stevep
>
> ** not at all affiliated with iThink, but have developed some
> financial analyses using iThink back in the day when I worked for HP.
> It really is a great tool for situations like this, and you guys will
> certainly find that there are some very experienced and capable
> consultants who will do great things for you without too much time
> needed from GAE personnel.
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