btw, I have logged these also as issues 3495, 4054. The first of those was closed when the acute issue of 1 minute crons not working was fixed, but the larger issue of cron failures remains. Since keeping track from about November 6th, I've seen six distinct outage periods with my app.
thanks, chris On Nov 16, 1:49 pm, Chris Prinos <[email protected]> wrote: > appid is gsrmon. > > More outages today, from more outages today 18:14-18:40 UTC and > 17:16-17:35 UTC. This is still with a two-minute cron task. > > The jobs are completely dropped, there are not a number of "make-up" > requests sent once the system recovers. Honestly I'm not even sure > that would be a great thing to do. I am specifically throttling cron- > issued requests at 1 or 2 minute intervals, if 30 minutes worth of > crons are missed, having a burst of 30 requests doesn't really help. > > chris > > On Oct 27, 1:54 am, "Mickey Kataria (Google Employee)" > > > > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for the reports, we're looking into it. In general, if there's > > an app engine issue that causes cron to miss a job, it will be > > executed once the system recovers, i.e. jobs are not entirely > > dropped. The exact time the task will execute depends on the > > frequency and scheduling. If you're seeing an issue where a task was > > completely dropped and never executed, please provide details about > > your app id and what you're seeing. Thanks. > > > On Oct 24, 11:53 pm, Chris Prinos <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Ok thanks for confirming you saw this as well. > > > > Looks like the same thing occured today, same time frame as before. > > > > Chris > > > > On Oct 22, 11:02 pm, sodso <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Yes, same happened for me as well, looks like CRON jobs arent > > > > reliable, so i have decided to implement double-checking logic to > > > > check whether the job has run or not by using a datatstore / memcache > > > > record > > > > > On Oct 22, 7:51 pm, Chris Prinos <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Anyone know if there was scheduled down time 10/22/2010 around 12:30AM > > > > > PDT? > > > > > > None of my cron-initiated requests were triggered from about 12:33 AM > > > > > PDT to 1:05 AM PDT, but there were no errors in the logs. -- 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.
