I have a chained task that runs exactly every 5 minutes and it runs 80 times
in the middle of the day (a cold instance can take anywhere from 1 second to
5 seconds [it grabs data from a remote service so the varied wait comes from
that service delaying, puts it to the datastore and adds the next task to
run in 5 minutes].

Here are yesterdays stats:

- 6 Times out of 80 it go a hot instance, ran in about 600 ms and took less
than half the usual CPU ms.
- 4 of the runs got a 500 error with the message (and forced the task to
re-run): "Request was aborted after waiting too long to attempt to service
your request. "
- The rest had the usual "This request caused a new process to be
started..."

So there is good and bad (for me a hot instance is perfectly good).. the 10
second request was aborted problem is recent (i'd have to go through my logs
to see when exactly this started).. but this is the only process running for
this application.. so there are not a bunch of different requests to the
application that are using up any available instances.. it just doesn't seem
to be cold starting a new process quick enough.

Thus.. if the amount of time instances stay hot has been increased, it seems
it might be sucking up a few too many resources and appengine is having
trouble spinning up new instances at times. (This is presuming that the two
issues are more than simply correlated.)


On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Tim Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote:

> It may even be longer, I have logs showing the same instance serving
> after 6min's inactivity.
>
> T
>
> On Sep 1, 9:47 pm, Tim Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I am seeing app recycling times out at between 4 and 6 minutes.  (ie 1
> > request every 4 minutes gets the same instance, every 6 minutes gets a
> > new instance).
> >
> > Can someone from google confirm.
> >
> > T
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