[appengine-java] Re: Frustrations with Performance

2010-07-07 Thread Jake
Hey, Are you getting frequent instance restarts? Check the log for loading requests. This has been known to happen on sites with little-to-no traffic. Solution? None, but if this issue is affecting you, star this: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2931 Jake On Jul 7,

[appengine-java] Re: Frustrations with Performance

2010-07-08 Thread l.denardo
If you mean sending a request from gthe client, that simply won't work. During particular days I've seen cold starts logged as near as 10 seconds between each other for the same user. Polling with a shorter period will simply destroy your client as well. The best thing for these issues is to move

[appengine-java] Re: Frustrations with Performance

2010-07-08 Thread Mike!
Just a though (haven't done it yet)...could you schedule a task every random 30-60 seconds, and have that task schedule another task? (watch out for sync issues?) Have it do some busy work, enough to keep your VM going? Mike! On Jul 8, 5:46 am, "l.denardo" wrote: > If you mean sending a request

[appengine-java] Re: Frustrations with Performance

2010-07-09 Thread Jake
Hey all, Any keepalive task has been discouraged by the AppEngine team. At the same time, they have also stated that even minor activity should keep the application up and running for a longer amount of time - on the order of an hour. So, I simply hope to encourage them along that second path :)

Re: [appengine-java] Re: Frustrations with Performance

2010-07-07 Thread Baz
For a work-around you can cron a hit to your site every minute to keep it live. On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Jake wrote: > Hey, > > Are you getting frequent instance restarts? Check the log for loading > requests. This has been known to happen on sites with little-to-no > traffic. > > Solu