On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 3:16 AM, WallyDD <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Nick,
>
> Thanks for responding and looking into this.
> See my response below;
>
> On Nov 24, 8:57 pm, Nick Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 5:48 PM, WallyDD <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > I am having something of similar problem with instances not turning
> > > off.
> >
> > This isn't a problem - you're not being charged for those instances.
> You'll
> > only be charged if demand requires sending traffic to them, in which case
> > you've been saved the overhead of starting up a new instance.
>
> I am very much being charged for these instances.
>
> > > The resident instances do nothing and stay idle while other instances
> > > serve. Not entirely sure if it is related to your issue.
> >
> > If you've specified a 'min idle instances' greater than 0, then this is
> > behaving as documented. The point of requesting idle instances is to
> handle
> > sudden increases in traffic volume while more instances are being spun up
> > in the background; naturally this means that they have to remain idle
> while
> > waiting for a traffic spike that will require them.
>
> The second instance fires up when traffic overloads the resident
> instance(s). The new dynamic instance(s) then stay on, permanently. So
> I get charged for both instances, one of which does nothing.
>

You set your "min idle instances" to 1; therefore, 1 instance will be idle,
in order to handle traffic spikes. If you don't want this behaviour, set
min idle instances to 0.

-Nick Johnson


> If it is behaving as documented, which part of the documentation
> should I be looking at?
>
> - sb
>
> > -Nick Johnson
> >
>
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