CPU Minutes, will be time the processor is actully active. Instance Minutes are used - while the instance is alive - even if actully idle.
Your instance will be idle in-between cron invocations. But not long enough for the instance to be shutdown. On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 8:49 AM, anatoly techtonik <[email protected]> wrote: > I know there is a lot of info about it, but seems too much for me, so I have > to ask. > > Given: > My app uses 24 Frontend Instance Hours (FIH) out of 28 allowed by free > quota. > My app is a cron job that pings external site every minute and stores result > in DB. > > FIH in Dashboard are calculated since 0:00 PST (that's ~2 hours ago). > > After 95 minutes since Dashboard I had 0.60 FIH out of 28. > > 95 minutes is 95 requests in my application. > Each request something like ms=128 cpu_ms=138 api_cpu_ms=115 > cpm_usd=0.005744 > 95 requests * 0.006 cpm_used = 0.57 CPU minutes used > But 0.60 of 1 Front Instance Hour are 36 Frontend Instance Minutes > > Question: > What are Frontend Instance Minutes and why they are so different from CPU > Minutes? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/e9gXqnnLGccJ. > 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. -- 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.
