I don't think that's what we're going for. If we kill your app after 9000
requests and spin up a new app within 15 minutes, we don't want to bill you
for two 15 minute increments.

Ikai Lan
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On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:32 PM, Juha K <[email protected]> wrote:

> The 15 minutes start-up fee seems odd with the current scheduler. A Java
> app with very low latency and high QPS would be billed a lot more than it
> should be. That is because for some unknown reason GAE kills an instance
> when it has reached exactly 9000 requests. I've tested this with several
> apps, the simplest had just one servlet doing nothing.
>
> I have an app which can serve about 30 QPS per instance. That means the
> 9000 requests limit will be reached within 5 minutes. That instance will be
> billed for 15 minutes! That's 3x the price of the actual instance usage! I
> hope the 9000 requests limit will change before the new pricing takes place.
> If the 9000 requests limit stays, I must make sure none of my app instances
> will serve more than 10QPS (=15 minutes life time / instance).
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