Did you check the current memory utilisation of each app when you ran the test?

On 13 March 2012 08:41, Kyle Finley <[email protected]> wrote:
> Has anyone noticed a dramatic difference in Cold Start times when using
> different AppIDs?
>
> I recently changed the AppID for a project that I'm working on and there was
> a noticeable reduction in the cold start time.
>
> Intrigued, I decided to perform an experiment:
>
> I loaded the application on 4 different AppIDs all of which were HRD.
> Using tools.pingdom.com I loaded the home page for each of the AppIDs using
> the http://*.appspot.com domain and recorded wait (yellow bar) time for the
> HTML page.
> I, then, shutdown each of the instance and repeated the test.
>
> In this limited sample the fasted AppID loaded the application in an average
> of 1.35 secs, while the slowest averaged 3.55 secs
>
> The Application is using:
>   runtime: python27
>   threadsafe: false
>
> I also performed the test on warm instances, but the results did not seem to
> indicate a correlation.
>
> I also tested the fasted and slowest AppIDs with a similar application
> written in Go, where AppID did not effect the cold start times.
>
> A little more information on the AppIDs:
>
> The fasted AppID was created yesterday
> The slowest was created many months ago.
> The slowest AppIDs were also the ones containing a dash(-), but that's
> probably just a coincidence.
>
> Is this slowness due to older hardware, or is this somehow related to the
> python27 runtime?
>
> Can anything be done for these slow AppIDs? Is it best just to delete them?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> - Kyle
>
>
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Apr2o_vtfYo3dFNPMDQ2ZHU1T2ZwcmJIOHNQYU9EWXc
>
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