Hi Sam,
Please read this section of the docs:
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/taskqueue/overview.html#Task_Queues_and_the_Development_Server
It describes the differences between production task queues and local task
queus and explains how to switch back to the old method of manually
tr
Local Task Queue are running tasks as fast as they can an not
honouring the maximum rate for the queue. on a 0.5/s queue I'm seeing
80+ tasks handled in a matter of seconds. This is a problem for me
because I am using the URLFetch service to fetch content that I am not
supposed to request more than