Oh yeah, I see it now. I'll get it fixed.

On Jan 11, 1:22 pm, Stephen Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
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> 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]>
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> > 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.
>
> > > --
> > > 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
>
> > > 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....com&origq=__scatter__&btnG=Search+Trunk<http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=__scatter__+package:http://appengi...>
> > <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
>
> > > >> 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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