This is something different. There is no "max instances" setting - it's "max idle instances". GAE will still spin up as many instances as it deems necessary to meet demand... right up until you exhaust quota.
FWIW, the paid scheduler does seem to operate considerably better than the free scheduler. For reasons I don't quite understand, free apps seem to be pretty much unusable. Enabling billing creates a much smoother experience. Jeff On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Kyle Finley <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm seeing the same thing with the test app I created. Even though I had max > instances set to 1 the scheduler still started up a second instance. During > this time I had several request that resulted in 500 server errors. Once the > second instance was started latency increased - as if the scheduler couldn't > decide which instance to route the request to. After a few seconds it > subsisted. I believe that this transition period maybe responsible for error > rates. The bad thing about it is: > > 1) The errors didn't appear in the logs. So it is quite likely that this is > a common problem, but few developers are aware of it. > 2) There's nothing that can be done to fix it. > > In fairness I was testing under the free quota, so maybe the scheduler > behaves better on payed apps. > > On Jul 9, 2012, at 10:05 PM, Richard wrote: > >> Ok, so I sat with Jeff in a G+ hangout for a while tonight, and we could not >> figure it out - other than my app is confusing the crap out of the scheduler >> which is then not sending requests to instances. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
