I'm trying to understand why app engine spawns new instances of our
app given our settings and a miniscule load of 7 requests from one
client.

Our application settings are:
min idle instances: 3
max idle instances: 3
min pending latency: 15 secs
max pending latency: automatic

We run a client-based web app that initially makes a series of
requests to our app engine instance(s). In the case I'm concerned with
there are 7 requests that all take well under 15 seconds. According to
the app engine instance logs the times are: 36ms, 207ms, 52ms, 160ms,
624ms, 1405ms, 3232ms.

There are no other requests being executed against that app; all the
response times are *well* under 15 seconds, and yet app engine spawns
3 new app instances. Why?

In fact the app engine logs show 6 requests being serviced, then 1 new
app instance spawned, then the 7th request serviced, then another 2
app instances spawned.

Our app gets very little traffic, but when a new client app is loaded
in a browser somewhere between 3 & 7 requests are sent to app engine.
I'm trying to keep app engine from launching new instances of our app
since the 3 resident instances should be more than capable of handling
our traffic volume, and spawning new instances kills the response
time.

Thanks for any tips!

Peter

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