Yes, you're right. As a new instance is being spun up, there will be some user that will have to deal with a loading request.
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Spines <[email protected]> wrote: > If I could get a definitive answer on this that would be great. > > I know that when your Google App Engine (GAE) app has 0 instances > running (because it has been idle for a bit), and a user requests a > page, the user has to wait for the instance to boot up and do all of > the instantiation which can cause the user to wait a significant > amount of time. > > My question is about the situation when your GAE app already has 1 > instance running, but begins to experience heavy load and starts > booting up a second instance. > > In this case, which will happen: > > 1. Will a user end up having to wait for the second instance to > instantiate before getting their request responded to? > > 2. Will no requests be sent to the second instance until it has fully > instantiated, thus not making a user wait an extended amount of time? > > > If the answer is number 1, then there will always be some users who > have to wait an unreasonable amount of time to get there request > responded to. Especially in my case since I use Spring, Spring > Security, and JDO. And JDO takes about 5 seconds to initialize, > Spring takes about 2 seconds, and Spring Security takes about 1 second. > > -- > 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]<google-appengine%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- Ikai Lan Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine http://googleappengine.blogspot.com | http://twitter.com/app_engine -- 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.
