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 > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- Nick Johnson, Developer Programs Engineer, App Engine -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
