I'm sorry Deepak, but I just don't understand your question. Perhaps
someone else understands the point he is trying to raise, and can help
him out?

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Deepak Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
> My question is the difference between,
> set min-idle-instance to 0 and run a cron job every min or every 15 min to
> ensure that at least one instance is available.
> And i have set max-idle-instance to either 1 or Automatic.
> The App may have or may not have traffic.
> Thanks
>
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Jon McAlister <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I probably don't understand your example perfectly. I think you are
>> saying that the app only runs a cron job request once a minute, that
>> request does nothing, and the app has absolutely no other traffic.
>>
>> In that example, if max-idle-instances=1, then the billable instance
>> hours would be 24. If max-idle-instances=automatic, then the billable
>> instance hours would be 24.
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Deepak Singh <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi Jon,
>> > In case i have min-idle-instance = 0
>> > Max-idle-instance = 1 Or Automatic
>> > and i run the cron job as stated earlier. Then how does it affect the
>> > bill
>> > as cron job does not do anything means does not use any resources.
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Jon McAlister <[email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi Deepak,
>> >>
>> >> It is not possible to set max-idle-instances to 0. If you had set
>> >> max-idle-instances to 1, then your example is basically identical to
>> >> Dani's.
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Deepak Singh
>> >> <[email protected]>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > Suppose, i have set my max-idle-instance to 0. And i have written a
>> >> > cron
>> >> > job
>> >> > which actually does nothing. It just call the servlet method and
>> >> > finishes.
>> >> > Thus it is able to create a new instance. I run this cron job every
>> >> > minute.
>> >> > In this case i get almost always one instance live and iahe set to
>> >> > max-idle-instance to 0.
>> >> > So, how does it affect the billing where i set max-idle-instance to
>> >> > 1.
>> >> > Thanks
>> >> > Deepak
>> >> >
>> >> > On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 10:59 PM, Dani Shaulov <[email protected]>
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Thank you Jon.
>> >> >> It makes much more sense now.
>> >> >> Another question:
>> >> >> If an instance starts - active for 1 seconds
>> >> >> Then idle for 5 and again active for 1 second
>> >> >> And again 1 second active every 5 minuets of idle
>> >> >> (basically 1 request (which takes 1 second) every 5 minuets)
>> >> >> So it is a total of 288 active seconds a day.
>> >> >> Is that charged as 15 min start up fee + 288 seconds,
>> >> >> or as 24 hours of instance time?
>> >> >> In my understanding, in the old model it's the former and in the new
>> >> >> model
>> >> >> it's the latter.
>> >> >> Is that right?
>> >> >>
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