On Friday, December 20, 2013 2:19:50 PM UTC-5, Gary Mort wrote: > > I realise that considering the cost, this is a very minor nit - but the > billing for idling IP addresses seems...odd. > > For my test google app, overnumerousness-site I was seeing some very odd > usage charts. My Cloud SQL instance seemed to be constantly running, > despite there not being any traffic. > > Checking the database usage for the past day, I saw an extremely small > read/write blip occuring approximately every 15 minutes. Checking my GAE > instance log files, I see that about every 15-16 minutes there is a single > request for /index.php from my own ip address. Turns out there is a > polling script on the page by default that runs to keep my session alive > since I had a config screen open in the browser. This means for the last > day[and during some other days], my app usage when idling is: > 10 minutes of idling, Cloud SQL and GAE Instance turn off. > 5 minutes later, the browser requests index.php. Cloud SQL and GAE turn > back on. > 10 minutes of idling, Cloud SQL and GAE instance turn off. > 5 minutes later, the browser requests index.php. Cloud SQL and GAE turn > back on. > > That amounts to roughly 40 minutes out of every hour where the Cloud SQL > instance is active, which seems to match the jump in hours I noticed from > yesterday to today because it wasn't quite a full X hours from when I was > last working on it[around 9PM yesterday]. > > However, what is odd is that there seems to be a massive jump on the > idling ip address hours... It seems that instead of measuring elapsed > clock time, it measures each occurence. So over the course of an hour, > there will be four 5 minute "idling" gaps - and for each of those > occurrences it charges a full hour - so I'm paying for 4 hours of ip idling > which really only took 20 minutes? > > It's a very small nit since it really is my own fault for not releasing > the ip address when I finished working at 9pm last night[and for not > closing the windows running the keep alives!] but I figured I'd mention it > in case anyone else is seeing thing...it was driving me crazy trying to > figure out how I was simultaneously wracking up hours of cloud sql time AND > ip idling time when no one was even accessing the application. :-) >
As a sidenote, I changed my billing plan from per use to per day since while testing I'm going to be using it erratically anyway - per day seems a better choice. -- 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.
