Hi jgilfelt,

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:47 AM, jgilfelt<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Nick,
>
> Thanks for the info.
>
> No, the index had been in place for some time. I was initially working
> with a small set of test data (15k entities) and my usage was around
> the 10% mark. Within the last week or so I started uploading my full
> data set via the remote_api data uploader and saw only incremental
> usage changes, peaking at 20% with 100k entities. Two days later I saw
> the jump to 96%.
>
> Is there normally a delay with the dashboard reflecting the "true"
> datastore usage (with respect to indexes and other overheads)?

Yes - the actual usage is typically updated once a day, with usage in
between being an estimate of actual usage. Charging is based only on
actual usage.

>
> I am happy to purchase additional quota, but I think we need a clearer
> picture of application datastore usage. Perhaps the dashboard could be
> enhanced to include the size of specific indexes?

We're working on improving the visibility of datastore usage.

-Nick Johnson

>
> Jeff.
>
>
> On Jul 9, 10:06 am, "Nick Johnson (Google)" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> Hi jgilfelt,
>>
>> Does the jump in space usage roughly coincide with the creation of the
>> index you describe? You should expect a large blowup in data size due
>> to both built-in and custom indexes, especially indexes on a list,
>> which will create one index entry per list item. For 100,000 entities
>> to use your 1GB of built in quota is not difficult - about 10k per
>> entity after all indexing and storage overhead.
>>
>> -Nick Johnson
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:12 PM, jgilfelt<[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > In the last day or so, the app I am developing has seen a sudden jump
>> > from 20% to 96% of the free quota for stored data for no apparent
>> > reason. The raw data that I have uploaded via remote_api is less than
>> > 60 megabytes in size and about 100,000 entities.
>>
>> > Not sure if the problem is index related or not. I do have an index on
>> > a multi-value list property and two booleans. I understand that this
>> > will incur storage overhead, but it is necessitated by the need to do
>> > "bounding box" geo-spatial queries within the application. The index
>> > itself shows a status of "Serving".
>>
>> > Can anyone shed any light on the reason for such a data usage
>> > increase, and whether or not it is legitimate or some sort of anomaly.
>>
>> > My app id is on-location.
>>
>> > Thanks,
>> > Jeff
>>
>> --
>> Nick Johnson, App Engine Developer Programs Engineer
>> Google Ireland Ltd. :: Registered in Dublin, Ireland, Registration
>> Number: 368047
>
> >
>



-- 
Nick Johnson, App Engine Developer Programs Engineer
Google Ireland Ltd. :: Registered in Dublin, Ireland, Registration
Number: 368047

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