hi,

You should not be seeing this any longer-- please post a follow-up if you
do.

(This was an issue with an experimental API -- so just as a general note,
it's advisable not to depend on such features for "mission critical"
things).

  -Amy

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 3:18 PM, rasmus <[email protected]> wrote:

> We have seen many blobstore errors today:
>
> DeadlineExceededError: The API call file.Create() took too long to respond
>
> for 2 periods: around 18:15 - 18:30 GMT
> and briefly around 22:00 GMT.
>
> I have been switching between 2 versions to "fix" this:
> (1) stores 1-3 blobs for *every* request, including many <500 byte ones,
> and
> (2) stores only >1kb blobs, on maybe 1 in 5+ requests
>
> Version (1) had periods when most blobstore requests failed (then we
> respond 500, then our customers retry fairly eagerly, so it piles up)
> but it also worked for a few hours,
> Version (2) seems nearly problem-free - but it was of course running at
> different times from (1), and there were occasional rejects.
>
>
> This made me wonder:
> Is it possible for our app to hammer down Blobstore by storing many small
> blobs?
>
> Our volumes are not huge, average 10-100 requests / minute, with peaks of
> 100+ requests near-simultaneously.
> But in each case the outage resolved immediately when I switched from
> version (1) to v (2)
>
> Thanks for any tips/confirmation.
>
>     rasmus
>
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