A correction.. 176K ms, so 176 seconds (not 17,6 seconds)..
I think because of parallel execution it must have been calculated so. Maybe
it is the calculation in a single cpu system. A single cpu machine would
have executed in 176 seconds.

About being expensive.. I totally agree to you..

aLi

2009/9/16 Erdinc Yilmazel <[email protected]>

> I was trying to delete all records of an entity type, 1000 entities on each
> request and I noticed the Google appengine headers returned from the server.
> The code uses the low level datastore api and it is a very basic piece of
> code.
>
> Query the datastore for the entity kind without any criteria.
> Fetch 1000 entities
> Store the entity keys in a List<Key>
> call datastore.delete(Iterable<Key>) method to delete the entities.
>
> No problem about these. But the google headers returned from the server
> about the resource consumption and an estimation of cost really confused
> me...
>
> X-Appengine-Estimated-CPM-US-Dollars: $4.089296
> X-Appengine-Resource-Usage:  ms=332 cpu_ms=176178 api_cpu_ms=176015
>
> AFAIK the estimated dollars mean that if I make 1000 requests like this, it
> would cost me ~ $4. Don't you think it is a bit expensive??? I know this
> isn't a very common scenario, but really is it worth $4?
> And I don't really understand the meaning of resource header... The server
> returns the response immediately, as stated in the ms=332 value.. How is the
> cpu_ms and api_cpu_ms calculated? If the response was generated in 0.3
> seconds, what does 17.6 seconds of cpu time mean?
>
> Thanks
>
> Erdinc
>
> >
>

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