That would explain the task queue issue. I did notice a larger number of instances than usual, but that could have been as a result of the Calendar API issue.
Regarding your advice to set larger timeouts - do you have best practice for doing this when using the gdata library? On Wednesday, 28 March 2012 15:10:02 UTC+1, Kenneth wrote: > > 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/-/MbsSuPMdDScJ. 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.
