You need to ramp up your tests over many minutes to allow GAE to spawn
enough instances to handle the traffic.  I don't know their exact
algorithm, but I know it takes time to scale up.

On Apr 15, 1:33 pm, Anonymous Coderrr <[email protected]> wrote:
> Good points.
>
> I rewrote the test so it fires off 20 requests from 20 distinct ip
> addresses simultaneously, once a second 10 times.
>
> In effect 20 concurrent requests, once a second.
>
> I had about 15% loss and the request time degradation was there.  (2
> seconds to fulfill a request on an idle system, 15 seconds under
> load).
>
> This still is no where near advertised load rates.
>
> On Apr 15, 2:19 am, Barry Hunter <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > One thing that has become apprent is appengine, is designed to scale
> > under real world usage.
>
> > So if your App went from 0/1 users to 500 in a matter of seconds, then
> > the system wont work well. You need to ramp up the usage slowly.
>
> > Even a slashdotting would result in a 'ramp' usage.
>
> > Also 500 users coming from once source, might be a bit suspicios, and
> > appengine could be weary of a DOS attack.
>
> > On 15/04/2009, Anonymous Coderrr <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > >  I have a fairly simple app - it looks up a couple of objects from the
> > >  google datastore and then creates a page from django template - pure
> > >  vanilla.
>
> > >  I wanted to see how my app would perform under heavy load, so I set up
> > >  a simulation where 500 virtual web-browsers would attempt to request
> > >  my page twice - exactly at the same time.
>
> > >  The results were dismal!!  Nearly 50% of the requests resulted in a
> > >  "HTTP response code: 500" from GAE - not my application, but
> > >  apparently GAE itself.
>
> > >  I check my dashboard logs - no errors from my application.  No errors
> > >  anywhere I could find.
>
> > >  What can I do?  I'm not expecting 500 requests per second, but
> > >  certainly maybe 100.  The best rate I can get according to the
> > >  dashboard is about 4.5 requests per second.  The dev server running on
> > >  my laptop does better than that!!!
>
> > >  Thanks
>
> > --
> > Barry
>
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