I doubt that replacing calls to Django with calls to memcache would improve the cold start time significantly, although I could be wrong. What I guess happens in a cold start is that the application code has to be loaded through the network into a server and then instantiated before serving a webpage. Using the memcache would then not improve the initial loading of applications. Only if Django is taking a long time to load during a cold start would the use of memcache make much difference.
On Feb 21, 3:37 am, Eli Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a testapp set up that I use to see if any goofy ideas I come up with > have any merit. > > So you could try to create a simplified version of your page that used the > same imports and django templates as the live one. Then create two > different test pages.. one where you experiment with caching different > things.. and then try to compare the cold start times. > > On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Anders <[email protected]> wrote: > > Strange, I don't see the preview release notice on > > appengine.google.com any longer. So I assumed that GAE was no longer > > in preview release version. And on the SDK download page it now says: > > "Please note: The App Engine SDK is under active development, please > > keep this in mind as you explore its capabilities." > > > I guess I could cache the html generated by Django, at least for the > > index page, if that library is more heavy to load than the Memcache > > API. I don't know exactly how Python works, but shouldn't it be > > possible for GAE to always have the standard frameworks always loaded > > into memory for all applications to share? > > > On Feb 21, 3:17 am, Eli Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > > First, when I log into appengine.google.com, it still says "this is a > > > preview release" with the "preview release" part being in bright red > > > letters... so.. take that to mean what you want. > > > > Second, you haven't mentioned what exactly the code for your index page > > > does? What is it loading? How much caching are you doing? > > > > Caching isn't just for entities from the datastore.. you can and should > > also > > > cache html or page templates or whatever else you can.. Also, you > > shouldn't > > > dump a bunch of imports at the top of your code.. only import specific > > > modules as needed within the code. > > > > Though, it's hard to make suggestions without knowing exactly how your > > code > > > works. (You may be doing all of the above things.. or feel like you are > > > doing them.) > > > > A lot of the annoying restrictions that people complain about, to me, are > > > inherent limitations to having a highly scalable infrastructure.. the > > > restrictions are there to force you to learn to code (from the beginning) > > > for the App Engine environment. > > > > Granted, your issue may just be with intermittent but slow cold start > > > times.. is the cold start reasonable in general for you.. > > > but occasionally hits that frustrating point? (Again, hard to know > > anything > > > without knowing how your code is structured.) > > > > On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Anders <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I'm using Python. And only Python's standard library that's in GAE. My > > > > guess is that the cold start problem is similar in the Java version. > > > > > The cold start time has improved but now and then loading the index > > > > page takes frustratingly long time. That's poor quality for both end > > > > users and developers. > > > > > On Feb 20, 7:21 pm, Brandon Thomson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Are you using python or java? what is your framework? > > > > > > On Feb 20, 1:26 am, Anders <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > This has been discussed before but the problem still remains. It > > seems > > > > > > that GAE is no longer in a preview release version (as far as I can > > > > > > see). Having a cold start initiation time of 10 seconds is a major > > > > > > bottleneck. > > > > > > > Imagine if it took 10 seconds to load for example the Google Search > > > > > > index page in your browser. It doesn't sound like a very long time, > > > > > > but today that kind of load time for an index page is very poor > > > > > > performance. > > > > > > > I understand that GAE cannot at the moment hold all applications > > hot/ > > > > > > warm, because that would require a lot more resources I assume. But > > I > > > > > > think the cold start time needs to be brought down to a maximum of > > > > > > around 2 seconds. > > > > > > > It actually doesn't matter in many cases if an application is used > > by > > > > > > millions of users every day or only seldom by a few people. The > > load > > > > > > time for webpages is usually extremely important regardless the > > amount > > > > > > of traffic to a website. 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