I would think that we can still specify an upper limit for instance
hours but some clarification would be nice.

On Sep 2, 7:59 pm, Stephen Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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:
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> > 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:
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> >> Quoting from
> >>http://code.google.com/appengine/kb/postpreviewpricing.html#scheduler...
>
> >> 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.
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> >> In other words, even though there may be more than your max, you will
> >> only be charged for your max.
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> >> 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...
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> >> > The latency of the requests are less than 1 seconds...
>
> >> > How can I get only 1 instance???
>
> >> > Thanks,
> >> > Seb.
>
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