Tim - thanks for the thoughtful response. May I ask: - Surely re-deployment causes immediate recycling? - How did you migrate your datastore to the new appid or access data from the old appid? - How are you deploying multiple versions? (Quite literally I mean, what kinds of commands are you using on the commandline?)
Sincerely, Kyle On Sep 1, 9:38 am, Tim Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote: > When we had our major problem last time I found an appid that wasn't > experiencing the problems and moved the whole > application there. I kept monitoring the bad instance for about 3 > weeks after and it was still getting hit the same time each day., > > I haven't bothered to look at it since. > > On a side note, it looks like app recycling has moved out to between 4 > to 6 minutes. Which means if you run something like django > and it fails during the initial imports you get a stuck instance that > just barfs continously and won't die unless everyone stops trying to > access it > and it gets rec-cycled. If recycle time has gone up from around 1-2 > mins to 4-6 minutes its going to be a lot harder to get rid of stuck > instances. > > As a matter of course I now always to deploy 2 copies of the same code > (version-numnber-a and version-number-b) and if one version gets > stuck > we will flick the default version to the alternate one. > > Unfortunately this hasn't worked at alll today as the quiet version > won't start up either because of DeadlineExceeded errors. > > So app engine has been very flaky for me today (12 hours) and there is > zip I can do about it. I am starting to get some heat over this (ie > was it wise to chose appengine). > > Hopefully we can attract some attention from a google person. > > T > > On Sep 1, 9:25 pm, Kyle Jensen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Thanks for your note Tim. > > > Crap -- that is very concerning. I haven't read through it all, but > > my impression is you're saying apps you've worked on get 'stuck' in a > > state with high error rates and you have evidence that it's due to the > > location of the app within the infrastructure. > > > ** Is that right? > > ** Have you found a way to 'un-stick' an app? E.g. re-deployment, > > major version change, fairy dust. > > > Sincerely, > > Kyle -- 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.
