Thank you, Greg!  This is excellent news.

On Feb 1, 4:29 pm, Greg Darke <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi HalcyonDays,
>
> In this case the system will add another token every 1/50th of a second.
>
> Note that the taskqueue system may batch up requests so that even
> though you will receive a new token every 1/50th of a second it may
> burst 2-3 (well, actually up to 5) tasks at a time.
>
> On 2 February 2011 07:35, HalcyonDays <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > Thanks for replying...
>
> > So in my example of rate=50/s and bucket-size=5:
> > When no tasks are in the queue, clearly the bucket fills up and has 5
> > tokens.
> > If I add 100 tasks, the first 5 will execute immediately and take all
> > 5 tokens... but now the bucket is empty.
>
> > I have specified a rate of 50 tokens to be added to the bucket every
> > second... but there are two ways that could happen:
> > 1) 50 tokens are deposited every 1 second.
> > 2) 1 token is deposited every 1/50th of a second.
>
> > If the first is true, then by using a bucket of size 5, no more than 5
> > tasks will ever be able to execute in a second because tokens are only
> > being added 50 at a time to a bucket that can only hold 5 tokens.
> > If the second is true, 5 will burst initially, but then there will be
> > a steady stream of 1 task every 50th of a second.
>
> > From what you said in your post: "the token-adding resolution is the
> > unit of the rate you set..." it sounds like the first is true... which
> > would mean that the task queue is essentially ALWAYS bursting.  I
> > guess that's not a huge deal, but means that to truly execute 50 tasks
> > a second, I have to bump my bucket-size to 50 as well, in which case
> > the task queue essentially starts 50 simultaneous tasks instead of
> > staging them across the entire second...  the behavior I would prefer
> > is the second...
>
> > On Feb 1, 1:44 pm, Robert Kluin <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>   The rate is like an average upper bound;  in other words, the
> >> token-adding resolution is the unit of the rate you set.  And, it is
> >> 'bursty,' so if you set a rate of 50/M you might very well have 50
> >> tasks execute in the first second then the queue will not execute any
> >> tasks for about 59 seconds.  Setting a higher bucket_size will let the
> >> queue 'burst' at a higher rate, I usually see that after a queue has
> >> emptied.
>
> >>   At least that's how I've seen the task-queue behave.
>
> >> Robert
>
> >> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 14:57, HalcyonDays <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > So I've read through a couple of things about the Task Queue's Token-
> >> > Bucket system, and I've taken a look at the wikipedia article to no
> >> > avail, so forgive me if this question has been answered elsewhere:
>
> >> > What is the resolution of the clock that deposits tokens into the
> >> > bucket for each queue?  Is its minimum resolution "per second?"
> >> > i.e.  If I say, "I want my rate to be 10/s," are 10 tokens deposited
> >> > into the bucket every second, or is one token added every 10th of a
> >> > second?
>
> >> > It seems like if the resolution is only per second, the rate is
> >> > limited not only by the user's specification, but also by the bucket
> >> > size...
>
> >> > For example: If I have a specified rate of 50/s but a bucket size of 5
> >> > and the system deposits 50 tokens into the bucket every second, are
> >> > the additional 45 just thrown away?  Does my rate actually become 5/s?
>
> >> > I'm specifically using the Java app engine, if there's a difference
> >> > between the Task Queues in Python/Java.
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