The 1000ms threshold as described in this thread, seems to be
applicable to client facing URLs, not tasks, which have a 10 minute
limit.  Google did not refute this when they had the opportunity.
Perhaps they might refute it now?

http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/thread/a5d1aeb359ff03ab/6413a972306dcc19?lnk=gst&q=1000ms

Does anybody know where I can read up on why this does not give me 72
instances?  Is this an undocumented bug?



On Mar 17, 12:18 pm, Robert Kluin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Brian,
>   From what I personally observe, if your tasks are long running you
> probably won't get a high throughput on that queue.  You could try
> spreading the tasks across a couple queues, but it probably won't
> increase the overall throughput much (if any).  If you can make the
> tasks run faster, un under 1000ms you'll get more instances spun-up
> and the queue's run rates will probably improve.
>
>   At least that is the behavior I observe.
>
> Robert
>
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 07:35, Brian Lim <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I am using the default task queue with the following settings:
>
> > rate 10/s
> > bucket-size 10
> > max-concurrent-requests 72
> > task-age-limit 5 minutes (this is the retry age limit measured from
> > the first try)
> > min-backoff-seconds 10
> > max-backoff-seconds 20
>
> > The queue is used to invoke a 300 second loop (Java servlet) that
> > finished by writing a very small entity to the datastore.  72
> > invocations are made.  Billing is enabled.
>
> > Monitoring the console, and hitting reload, I never see more than 18
> > instances running.  What is the problem or why is this not working
> > right?
>
> > There are no log messages, no quota limits have been hit and at least
> > 12 hours of CPU time remain under the billing limit.  Note 72
> > invocations of 300 seconds is only 6 hours so there should be no
> > problem.
>
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