On Jul 13, 5:43 pm, Bill <[email protected]> wrote: > The reason sharding works to reduce contention is that the each shard > is in a separate entity group. Within the transaction, one > GeneralCounterShard entity is either retrieved or written. Each shard > forms its own entity group, which is what you want so there's no > contention on writes.
Ah, of course! My mind somehow mixed up the code that increments a single shard and the code that loops over all the shards to read their values. Thanks for setting me straight. -n8 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
