I mean a Maximum Active Setting (not the idle setting which is useless
against a denial of service attack).

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Stephen Johnson <[email protected]>wrote:

> 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.
>>
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