My best guess is that the "10 second 500 too long response" is the system load throttle.
I agree that the 100% availability sign when the system is throttling is a bit misleading. How would you want to read when some hosts are being throttled and other hosts are idle? I created a ticket stating this observation (and more) at http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4113 On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 11:07 AM, anatoliy <[email protected]>wrote: > I agree with the above. > > 500 server error occasionally happens over a year I'm working with > the AppEngine. I noticed this happens more often with other systems > which have HTTP interfaces with my app than with live users. Perhaps > reason is that live users mostly read datastore while applications > usually perform intensive update operations. > > Frustrating is to write in API docs for my site that customers need to > retry their request few times if they encounter 500 error. Even more > frustrating is that I can do nothing to handle this error within the > app. > > anatoliy > > On Nov 24, 1:18 pm, Erwin Streur <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I find the System Status page (http://code.google.com/status/ > > appengine) misleading. It almost always shows 100% Availability and > > "No significant issues". The non "No significant issues" was on 2nd > > November: "Service disruption" even though I have see "Investigating" > > in the mean time as well. > > > > At the application level, our application is regularly returning HTTP > > 500 in production (logged as warnings) and we have deployment failures > > in development. Given the regular posts in the fora other people are > > experiencing the similar problems. So I think that Google should > > report something different then "No significant issues", eg. "Minor > > issues", "Major issues" > > > > Any ideas/opinions on this? For example from Google on how they define > > "No significant issues"? > > > > Regards, > > > > Erwin > > -- > 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]<google-appengine%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- 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.
