It is very likely that the servers don't have swap. I suspect that when google has a 1GB server, they stick just 7 128MB users on there. Remember: google's architecture is to have a zillion little computers, and distribute everything.
On Dec 14, 2011, at 11:03 AM, Rishi Arora wrote: > Yeah, more RAM is linearly more costlier, which seems unfair and > un-competitive. It does make me wonder though, how hard does Google (and > others like linode) try to actually make all that RAM available to you. In > other words, if you bought an instance with 4G RAM, do they absolutely > guarantee you'll get all 4GB in physical RAM and won't start swapping because > you're probably sharing the server with other apps? -- 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.
