Both will run. You do not need sharded counters in this scenario. You need sharded counters when you expect to have an update rate of over 1/second per entity group.
Ikai Lan Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine Blog: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/app_engine Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/appengine On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Greg Donald <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Greg Donald <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was reading this: > > > > http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/sharding_counters.html > > > > I have an app with a user table. The user table has an integer field > > that will need to be updated every 15 minutes via my cron url. The > > integer will move both up and down at times. > > > > Is this a scenario where a shard counter should be used? Do I need to > > just build it without and see if I need it later? > > > Followup question: > > What happens when a cron entry is still running when it's time for it > to run again? Does the first one get killed or will I see both > running? > > > > -- > Greg Donald > destiney.com | gregdonald.com > > -- > 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.
