Sounds like you're on the right track to me.  And I totally agree,
having users bump into generic 500 errors sucks.  You can serve a
custom error in some cases:
  
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/appconfig.html#Custom_Error_Responses


Robert


On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 13:30, c h <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for the advice Robert!
>
> i need to verify my instance startup time so that i can pick a good pending
> latency.  i have been playing with idle instances on non-production apps and
> have found that settings similar to your experiences are helpful.  i'm going
> to start rolling those out.
>
> i didn't notice if latency had gone high during that period.  it seems to
> have subsided since then so i must have hit a high-load period.  it would be
> nifty if there was a way to detect that and give the user a better page then
> the GAE 500 error page.
>
> thanks again,
>
> cfh
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