@stevep Great. We just need to enough stars so the issue bubbles up. I am trying to convince everyone I know including my grandma and my dog to star that issue :)
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:44 PM, stevep <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Vlad, > > Wanted to let you know I starred this issue. > > You had suggested, I think, this I set this issue up given my rants > about the lack of real-world concern re: taskqueue features. (I.e. GAE > cannot reliably handle Paypal ExpressCheckout.) > > Afraid that my world-wearly cynicism about GAE engineers being > concerned kept me from doing this. > > Hopefully I'm wrong and this will get immediate attention -- likely > though we'll get the new API from Guido first. (Oops, there's that > WWC.) > > Cheers, > Steve > > On Apr 18, 4:22 pm, vlad <[email protected]> wrote: > > GAE folks actually answered this question some months back. What they > said > > is backoff specified in queue.yaml only a cue for the scheduler. > Scheduler > > does not come back to check the queue to see if retries are needed UNLESS > it > > needs to do that anyway. If there are other tasks pending to be fired > > between moment your task failed and time specified in your backoff > schedule > > , then you MAY see backoffs to behave closer to what you specified in > > queue.yaml > > In other words, IF you happen to run a lot of tasks then your average > > behavior will be better than an isolated test case you are focusing on. > > > > This is very frustrating. I would be happy to pay more CPU cost to make > > TaskQueue behave more predictably. Starhttp:// > code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4901if you want > > that too. > > > > Bottom line: You can workaround this problem by firing a dummy task on > the > > same queue every second. > > > > Btw, i think you are right assuming GAE folks are not terribly proud of > > this design :) > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
