The idle instances that you have set control the amount instances that are available to serve when extra traffic hits your site. You are not the first person to be confused by this one.
The documentation on this could probably do with something of an update. This page still have links to "Always on". http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/adminconsole/instances.html On Jan 4, 2:59 pm, Andreas <[email protected]> wrote: > i set my instance scheduler to 2 resident and max 2 idle. and it worked well > till today. > > Screen shot 2012-01-04 at 2.53.14 PM.png > 115KViewDownload > > > > why am i getting billed for more than 2 instances? why are there up to 40 > instances in this graph? > > Screen shot 2012-01-04 at 2.51.56 PM.png > 64KViewDownload > > > > i know the instance scheduler is not working perfectly but i've never seen > such a spin up. > dont really care about how many instances are up but i really dont want to be > charged for more than i decided to be billed. -- 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.
