Keep in mind that the "first byte sent" goes out when your handler is
completely finished with everything.  If you're fetching a lot of data
from the datastore and want the page to start rendering earlier, you
might want to think about using AJAX.

On May 18, 8:34 am, Anders <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ok, thanks. Yes, I suspected some kind of startup/page swap thing was
> going on. It seems to happen more frequently now than in the past. It
> lowers the quality of the service by having such slow response times
> happening frequently. For example, the load time for a page with 17
> separate objects (such as images, javascript files etc) can take 6
> seconds of which 5 seconds is just for the server to respond! That's a
> severe performance bottleneck imo.
>
> On May 18, 1:02 pm, Tim Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi
>
> > What you are seeing the is the server starting up some of the time
> > (hence long response times) and sometime hitting a running server
> > (short response times)
>
> > Servers may recycle very quickly (ie in as little as 30 secs)
>
> > A typical server startup time for django and some other frameworks is
> > 2-3 secs
> > You can see this in you admin console logs
>
> > Java will no doubt exhibit the same thing
>
> > Rgds
>
> > Tim
>
> > On May 18, 3:30 am, Anders <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > I don't know if this is related to only the Python version or also to
> > > the Java version, but the response time from GAE servers (Python) is
> > > very uneven. Sometimes the time from connection with the server to the
> > > first byte sent is less than a second, but sometimes the response
> > > takes several seconds between connection with the server to the first
> > > byte being sent. It doesn't depend on the datastore or some other
> > > backend it seems since it happens for pages who don't use any
> > > (application-level) backend. And the response time can be very long
> > > even after a recent (previous minute or so) fast response.
>
> > > I have noticed this using ordinary web browsers, and also when using
> > > tools like:
>
> > >http://tools.pingdom.com/?url=http://www.blabline.com&treeview=0&colu...
>
> > > Is there some kind of performance bottleneck that sets in from time to
> > > time?
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