I like Philip's suggestion a lot.  It will help us all identify space
intensive indexes, and _hopefully_ reduce the number of posts about
this.

I submitted a feature request for this issue:
http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2740

Robert




On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:27 PM, WeatherPhilip
<[email protected]> wrote:
> This issue comes up about once per week. Google -- you need to address
> this. The simplest way of addressing it would be to put the size of
> *every* index on the statistics page, and show that the total
> corresponds (roughly) to the quota number.
>
> This would enable people to see which index (or indexes) was consuming
> a lot of space, and take steps to optimize -- maybe by not indexing
> that field.
>
> Philip
>
> On Feb 8, 1:48 pm, "Ikai L (Google)" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Are you storing information in sessions? Session information can also take
>> up space.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Pavel Kaplin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Here's the detailed description of mentioned indexes:
>> >  1) address (string, < 100 bytes), tradePoint(String, < 100 bytes),
>> > user (Key, generated by GAE), timestamp
>> >  2) tradePoint, user, timestamp
>> >  3) user, timestamp
>>
>> > Entities count is about 15k. I don't understand how it might happened.
>>
>> > On Feb 8, 3:25 pm, "Nick Johnson (Google)" <[email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>> > > Hi Pavel,
>>
>> > > That depends on the nature of your indexes, and the entities being
>> > indexed.
>> > > It's certainly possible for indexes to reach this magnitude -
>> > particularly
>> > > if you're indexing list properties.
>>
>> > > -Nick Johnson
>>
>> > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Pavel Kaplin <[email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>> > > > It's hard to believe that 3 indexes (for 2, 3 and 4 fields) could eat
>> > > > 9x more space than data itself.
>>
>> > > > On Feb 8, 2:45 pm, "Nick Johnson (Google)" <[email protected]>
>> > > > wrote:
>> > > > > Hi Pavel,
>>
>> > > > > The datastore stats include only the raw size of the entities. The
>> > total
>> > > > > space consumed is the space consumed by the entities, plus the space
>> > > > > consumed by all your indexes.
>>
>> > > > > -Nick Johnson
>>
>> > > > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Pavel Kaplin <
>> > [email protected]
>> > > > >wrote:
>>
>> > > > > > Hi there!
>>
>> > > > > > My datastore stats says me "Size of all entities = 51 MBytes", but
>> > > > > > dashboard shows 0.54 Gb as Total Stored Data.
>>
>> > > > > > As you can see, these values differ from each other for more than
>> > ten
>> > > > > > times. Why?
>>
>> > > > > > Application id is bayadera-tracker
>>
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