That's only for idle instances but if they are actively serving request due to a denial of service which is Brandon is talking about then you will be charged. There definitely needs to be a maximum setting.
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 10:54 AM, prgmratlarge <[email protected]> wrote: > Quoting from > http://code.google.com/appengine/kb/postpreviewpricing.html#scheduler_knobs_affect_billing > > Max Idle Instances: Decreasing this value will likely decrease your > bill as fewer idle instances will typically be running and we will not > charge for any excessive idle instances. In this case the scheduler > knob is a suggestion to the scheduler but we will not charge you for > excess if the scheduler ignores the suggestion. For instance, if you > set Max Idle Instances to 5 and the scheduler leaves 16 instances up > for some length of time, you will only be charged for 5 instances. > > In other words, even though there may be more than your max, you will > only be charged for your max. > > On Sep 2, 1:02 pm, Seb <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've set "Max Idle Instances: ( 1 ) " > > and "Min Pending Latency: ( 15.0s ) " > > but, after waiting 15 minutes, there are still 2 instances presents... > > > > The latency of the requests are less than 1 seconds... > > > > How can I get only 1 instance??? > > > > Thanks, > > Seb. > > -- > 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.
