It is unknown. Google won't tell or guarantee a time, because it will change vs on traffic to your app, traffic to other apps, number of apps running, number of servers Google has dedicated to Google App Engine, etc. etc. etc.
Could be up forever, or could be up 1 second before a shutdown. Can't code anything that depends on your instance being up instantly, or it won't scale well or be guaranteed to work. On Feb 17, 12:56 pm, Henning <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > do you know the exact time ? > > I noticed too that sometimes a request can take up to 20 seconds. > I am using for the front-end flash/flex which allows me to request a > status information every 15 seconds (at the moment). I already needed > this status info for proprietary session handling and the so-called > "maintenance shut down". > After the first request which can take a lot of time, everything goes > smooth. I wonder at what time intervals I should set my "alive" > handler. > The first idea was about 3 minutes but that is maybe too slow. > > Best regards, > Henning > > On Feb 17, 7:40 pm, Brian <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Yes. The actual time to hibernate is really short, closer to 1-2 > > minutes than 1 hour. > > > Until this is fixed in some way, you need to either be willing to > > accept the huge wait for free hosting, or code some kind of task to > > ping your app every 60 seconds... > > > On Feb 16, 11:17 pm, netcompetency <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > i have some labs on Google App Engine and find some "strange" yet > > > "consistent" behaviour. My app is based on Spring/JPA. No error/ > > > exception and working properly. The issue is with performance. > > > > If we are not using the apps for some time --- for example for an hour > > > --- the application is like being "hibernated". It needs time to > > > response to the first request. > > > > Is this the case ? Is there an documentation on this ? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Eko Budhi S -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.
