Yes, we are now seeing the occasional deadline exceeded in the AM US
time for a small-stack app as well.

On Nov 3, 6:18 am, Tim Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Also for a static page such as about, does it not make sense to cache the
> > rendered template in Memcache, to save the processing?
>
> It does
>
> However you are not guarunteed to find anything in the cache, and I
> think its indicative of a capacity problem in the early morning US
> time
> that startup times that normally are around 3-4 sec, blow out to 30
> sec are occuring very frequently.
>
> So the best example of this problem is one that doesn't load a big
> stack and still blows out instance startup time, as per the OP's post.
>
> Rgds
>
> T
>
> On Nov 3, 5:53 am, William Montgomery
>
>
>
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Also for a static page such as about, does it not make sense to cache the
> > rendered template in Memcache, to save the processing?
>
> > Will.
>
> > 2009/11/2 Jason C <[email protected]>
>
> > > We have a webapp application that occasionally gets
> > > DeadlineExceededErrors on cold start (i.e., >30s!). This is a regular
> > > occurrence on our Django-based apps.
>
> > > Happens at the usual times: say, 6-9a PST.
>
> > > j
>
> > > On Nov 2, 2:17 pm, Brandon Thomson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > For a simple webapp app, even cold start should be not more than
> > > > 50-100ms extra. One thing you might be affected by is slow import bug;
> > > > you may want to add more logging statements to see if that is the
> > > > cause. Either way try to bring it to the attention of googlers so they
> > > > can look into it as there is probably nothing you can do.
>
> > > > On Nov 1, 5:48 pm, Blake <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > > Hi -
>
> > > > > I have a relatively simple app and I've noticed significant
> > > > > performance degredation over the last week. Even on extremely simple
> > > > > pages like the "about" page which has the following code:
>
> > > > > class About(webapp.RequestHandler):
>
> > > > >     def get(self):
>
> > > > >         template_values = {}
> > > > >         path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '../views/
> > > > > about.html')
> > > > >         self.response.out.write(template.render(path,
> > > > > template_values))
>
> > > > > Yesterday, requests to this page were taking anywhere from 10-15
> > > > > seconds to display from the time appengine first recorded the request
> > > > > arrival - just to verify I adding some logging and it was almost the
> > > > > entire time  of the request before flow control was in my class.
> > > > > Naturally once my code was executing it finished very quickly as all
> > > > > it does is render a static html file. Some requests finished almost
> > > > > instantaneously, but consistently I ran into the enormous delay. This
> > > > > pattern leads me to believe that I'm being affected by the "cold
> > > > > start" phenomenon but I would expect that as I continued to hit
> > > > > refresh to generate logging data that all subsequent loads would be
> > > > > fast, but many were not. Any insights?
>
> > > > > -Blake
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