Re: [google-appengine] GAE cluster under high load?

2012-02-03 Thread c h
Thanks for the advice Robert! i need to verify my instance startup time so that i can pick a good pending latency. i have been playing with idle instances on non-production apps and have found that settings similar to your experiences are helpful. i'm going to start rolling those out. i

Re: [google-appengine] GAE cluster under high load?

2012-02-03 Thread Robert Kluin
Sounds like you're on the right track to me. And I totally agree, having users bump into generic 500 errors sucks. You can serve a custom error in some cases: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/appconfig.html#Custom_Error_Responses Robert On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 13:30, c h

RE: [google-appengine] GAE cluster under high load?

2012-02-02 Thread Brandon Wirtz
: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 11:57 PM To: google-appengine@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [google-appengine] GAE cluster under high load? Robert, What i observed when it was brought to my attention was that the site had problems loading some pages. it seemed to be isolated to a subset of pages

Re: [google-appengine] GAE cluster under high load?

2012-02-02 Thread c h
High replication, max pending latency is automatic -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/el3SJNO6qP8J. To post to this group, send email

RE: [google-appengine] GAE cluster under high load?

2012-02-02 Thread Brandon Wirtz
@googlegroups.com [mailto:google-appengine@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of c h Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 12:19 AM To: google-appengine@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [google-appengine] GAE cluster under high load? High replication, max pending latency is automatic -- You received

Re: [google-appengine] GAE cluster under high load?

2012-02-02 Thread c h
thanks for the tip! i'll try playing with that. do you think that is at all related to the problem i was having? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To view this discussion on the web visit

Re: [google-appengine] GAE cluster under high load?

2012-02-02 Thread Robert Kluin
Hey Christian, It could just be that you hit some period of latency for a service. Was your average latency higher than normal? It is possible that reducing the max latency could help. That will encourage App Engine to spin up new instances more willingly. For apps where user experience is

[google-appengine] GAE cluster under high load?

2012-02-01 Thread c h
Hello, I just started getting lots of these errors this afternoon on one of my apps: Request was aborted after waiting too long to attempt to service your request. This may happen sporadically when the App Engine serving cluster is under unexpectedly high or uneven load. If you see this

Re: [google-appengine] GAE cluster under high load?

2012-02-01 Thread Robert Kluin
Hi Christian, Are/were you seeing small bursts of those or seeing a solid stream for a prolonged period? Are you still seeing them? Did you notice anything strange about the number of instances? Robert On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 18:03, c h how...@umich.edu wrote: Hello, I just started

Re: [google-appengine] GAE cluster under high load?

2012-02-01 Thread c h
Robert, What i observed when it was brought to my attention was that the site had problems loading some pages. it seemed to be isolated to a subset of pages on the site - some pages loaded well, some did not load. a little bit after i posted the problem seems to have subsided, but so has