For Python applications, yes, a single request takes up all of the
resources of an instance for the time it's being handled. Java
instances with threading enabled can handle multiple requests.

On May 11, 11:46 am, Vinuth Madinur <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's not that one request would take up all the resources of one whole
> instance.. considering the pricing proposed for an Instance is similar to
> EC2's instance, this doesn't make any sense.
>
> For the way App Engine has been designed, the way of looking at it in terms
> of Instances is awkward.
>
> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Nischal Shetty
> <[email protected]>wrote:
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> > As far as I can tell, yes that is how it is. The second instance would spin
> > up if the first one is busy serving some other request.
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> > They probably have a request pool. So requests would wait a little and if
> > none of the existing instances is ready to serve the request then a new
> > instance would spin up.
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> > On 11 May 2011 20:54, Vinuth Madinur <[email protected]> wrote:
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> >> @Nischal
> >> "I have anywhere from 80 - 150+ instances running at any point of time
> >> (without the multi threaded thingy)."
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> >> Does this mean 2 simultaneous requests = 2 instances? That doesn't seem
> >> right. Am I missing something?
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> >> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Nischal Shetty <
> >> [email protected]> wrote:
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> >>> I have anywhere from 80 - 150+ instances running at any point of time
> >>> (without the multi threaded thingy).
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> >>> I have a question - Does it mean charges would be in 4 digits per month?
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> >>> On 11 May 2011 19:58, Nitu Chiring <[email protected]> wrote:
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> >>>> I am currently having Always on feature. so does that mean I shall end
> >>>> up paying 3 * 24 * 30*0.05 $s?
> >>>> Also my application uses email heavily to notify users.
> >>>> And the free quota been just reduced to 100 recipients .
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