Hi Fred,
I can see it when I go to Datastore Statistics page and choose an individual
entity. On about half of my entities I can see the property and half I don't
see the property. The first four of my entities alphabetically have it and
the fifth doesn't. appid is my-lms-test
Steve

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 1:42 PM, frew <[email protected]> wrote:

> As Ikai said, this was added in support of making mapper more
> efficient. It's supposed to be completely invisible, so its visibility
> is a bug. Can you let me know where you're seeing it (admin console?
> API?) and your appid? Also, in case you're worried, Google is picking
> up the bill for this property, so it shouldn't affect your storage
> costs any.
>
> Thanks
> -Fred
>
> On Jan 11, 12:29 pm, "Ikai Lan (Google)" 
> <[email protected]<ikai.l%[email protected]>
> >
> wrote:
> > The scatter property is being used to better distribute work across
> > different worker shards. Prior to the scatter property, there were
> several
> > incidents where work was unevenly distributed across tasks.
> >
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> > Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine
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> >
> > On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Stephen Johnson <
> [email protected]>wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > Thanks Ikai,
> > > I've been using mapreduce for a long time and have never seen
> properties
> > > added to our own entities like that. I'll take a look and see what it's
> > > being used for so I understand it better and if this side-effect is
> > > documented anywhere since it is strange and a little disconcerting to
> see
> > > unknown properties popping up on your own entities.
> > > Thanks,
> > > Steve
> >
> > > On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Ikai Lan (Google) <
> > > [email protected] <ikai.l%[email protected]> <
> ikai.l%[email protected] <ikai.l%[email protected]>>> wrote:
> >
> > >> It's a property used by the Mapper API:
> >
> > >>
> http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=__scatter__+package:http://appengi....googlecode\.com&origq=__scatter__&btnG=Search+Trunk<http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=__scatter__+package:http://appengi....googlecode%5C.com&origq=__scatter__&btnG=Search+Trunk>
> <http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=__scatter__+package:http://appengi...>
> >
> > >> --
> > >> Ikai Lan
> > >> Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine
> > >> Blogger:http://googleappengine.blogspot.com
> > >> Reddit:http://www.reddit.com/r/appengine
> > >> Twitter:http://twitter.com/app_engine
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> > >> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Stephen Johnson <
> [email protected]>wrote:
> >
> > >>> Checking my datastore statistics today I noticed that a new property
> > >>> has magically appeared named __scatter__ of type ShortBlob. I don't
> > >>> have any property defined with this name and it has the App Engine
> > >>> format of __xyz__ naming so I'm assuming it's something Google has
> > >>> introduced. However, this is a little disconcerting that it is
> showing
> > >>> up in datastore statistics and no mention of this has been provided
> by
> > >>> google. Also, it doesn't show up in the datastore viewere. Is anyone
> > >>> else seeing this magic property? Should I be concerned? Anyone know
> > >>> it's purpose?
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