Have a look at this issue: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6481
Note that this is only a reporting issue only and doesn't affect what's actually going on, so if you are experiencing cost increases that's something else. Make sure you set larger timeouts on your url fetches. On Wednesday, March 28, 2012 7:02:43 AM UTC+1, Gwyn Howell wrote: > > the app id is appogee-leave, but it seems to have sorted itself out now. > yesterday from about 10am - 3pm utc the task queue was out of control, and > we now have a bill to pay to cover it > > On Tuesday, 27 March 2012 22:51:11 UTC+1, nverne wrote: >> >> Can you please give us an app id so we can investigate? >> >> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 9:27 PM, Gwyn Howell <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Just checked the app engine console to alarmingly find over 20k tasks >> > sitting in the task queue and 25 instances running. Our app normally >> runs on >> > 4-5 instances. I paused the tasks queue, so I could investigate. I found >> > that the tasks were making calls to the Google Calendar API and throwing >> > "DeadlineExceededError: ApplicationError: 5" exception presumably >> UrlFetch >> > is timing out when communicating with the API. Regardless of this, there >> > still should not be that many tasks, so I purged the queue and started >> the >> > job again and sat there watching the tasks spawn - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 all >> the way >> > to about 20 tasks then suddenly 13,000 of them. Clearly this is >> incorrect. >> > My app does not contain code to spawn that many tasks in such little >> time. >> > >> > What is going on here? Why is App Engine reporting so many tasks? >> > >> > -- >> > 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/-/8sfyiYFqmM0J. >> > 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/Z-aJSHhZTIkJ. 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.
