On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 1:05 AM, sb <[email protected]> wrote: > Right now Automatic. > > In the case described, one. >
As I explained, then, this is expected behaviour: You asked for one idle instance, so one instance remains idle. If your traffic increases rapidly enough that existing instances can't handle it, that instance will soak up the additional traffic until more instances can be brought online. -Nick Johnson > > On Nov 27, 4:34 am, Nick Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > -- > > > > > 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. > > > > -- > > 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. > > -- 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.
