I just asked: We still have a maximum budget. No need to worry about
that.

On Sep 2, 8:23 pm, Stephen Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> There still needs to be a maximum. A daily rate can still be exhausted by a
> denial of service. Worse yet when AppEngine has issues such as datastore
> issues, memcache issues, task queue issues and all the other issues it has,
> it can cause your latency to rapidly increase even though your requests are
> failing. The scheduler will then start spinning up instances to serve bad
> requests and eat your daily quota for now good reason. In my opinion there
> needs to be a Max. Active Instances and also we should be able to set
> Minimum Idle Instances to zero. Not sure why it can only be set to 1.
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> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Philip <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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:
>
> > > > 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.
> > ..
>
> > > >> 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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