What is your setting for min idle instances?

-Nick

On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 10:47 AM, sb <[email protected]> wrote:

> It doesn't behave this way at all.
>
> It just fires up a new instance once the resident instance get
> overloaded. The resident instance goes idle.
>
> The new instance then handles all the traffic, and when that gets
> overloaded another instance is created, while the original resident
> instance is just sitting their completely idle. So I am getting billed
> for three instances one of which is doing nothing and never will do
> anything until I manually intervene.
>
>
>
> On Nov 26, 6:20 pm, Nick Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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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