So have you removed the DateTimeProperty or changed it to a
StringProperty to see if the performance improved?



Robert





On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 13:32, Christopher Staite
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I've removed the ReferenceProperty (it wasn't really needed anyway)
> I'm now just storing the id as an IntegerProperty.  This hasn't speed
> things up at all.  I've managed to optimise it even further by looking
> at every call I make, but these are still taking forever.  I think
> it's because I have the DateTimeProperty's in there.  I am using
> AppStats at the moment, that's how I know it's these calls that are
> causing the issue.
>
> Thanks, Chris.
>
> On 9 Sep, 07:27, Fredrik Bonander <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> It's little off topic, but a good thing to know is that the 
>> db.ReferanceProperty doesn't behave like in same fashion one migth think (at 
>> least I didn't). Accessing the  ReferanceProperty will make a new call 
>> against the datastore.
>>
>> A good you can do if you want look in to what's eating the CPU quota is to 
>> use appstats.
>>
>> http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2010/03/easy-performance-profilin...
>>
>> ..fredrik
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On 8 sep 2010, at 19.46, Eli Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > One way to find out would be to just do a test.. create a model called 
>> > PotMemberDeux and make pot = db.StringProperty() in that one.. then test 
>> > how long those puts take by assigning pot="p" and use the same put code.
>>
>> > I'd guess that both of the puts referencing the same pot=p could be what 
>> > is slowing it down.. granted, I don't use ReferenceProperty at all... so, 
>> > what do I know..
>>
>> > On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Christopher Staite 
>> > <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Hi guys,
>>
>> > I've been trying write my first real application for the app engine.
>> > After multiple re-writes I've finally got the hang of things.  I think
>> > that I've got something efficient and correct.  However, it's still
>> > not performing particularly quickly and I'd like to speed it up a
>> > little more.
>>
>> > The main issue is that most calls have to place two entries into the
>> > datastore:
>>
>> > class PotMember(db.Model):
>> >        pot = db.ReferenceProperty(Pot)
>> >        member_id = db.IntegerProperty()
>> >        count = db.IntegerProperty()
>> >        second_pot = db.BooleanProperty()
>> >        purchase_time = db.DateTimeProperty(auto_now_add=True)
>> >        process_time = db.DateTimeProperty(auto_now=True)
>>
>> > newMembers = []
>> > newMembers.append(PotMember(pot=p, member_id=member_id, count=count,
>> > second_pot=False))
>> > newMembers.append(PotMember(pot=p, member_id=member_id,
>> > count=second_count, second_pot=True))
>> > db.put(newMembers)
>>
>> > This operation takes ~300-400ms, which is enough for App Engine to
>> > complain that my application is executing too slowly and needs to be
>> > "optimised".  What exactly is taking so long to place these entries?
>> > Most other put() operations take ~10ms to complete.  Is it the use of
>> > the DateTimeProperty or the use of the ReferenceProperty that is
>> > slowing this call down?
>>
>> > Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> > Many Thanks, Chris.
>>
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