I have a similar theory. We have 9 Million instances, Let's look busy. :-)
I think that they assign instances to somebody at all times, and if that somebody suddenly needs one it raises the QoS. Doesn't cost anything to idle instances that weren't doing anything. And you make the customer happy if you avoid a warm up. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:google- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of hyperflame > Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2012 10:28 AM > To: Google App Engine > Subject: [google-appengine] Re: Startup time exceeded...on F4?! > > On Jul 22, 5:12 am, Aleksei Rovenski <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Regarding min idle instances, I must admit there is something strange > > going on in my Instance tab in Dashboard. > > I have settings like this: idle instances min=auto, max=1, pending > > queue min and max=15s. I have some working instances that I get > > charged for and then few more that are anyway created by google just > > waiting out there for hours and even days and I do not seem to pay for > > them. If I kill them, they are coming back anyway. This looks nice > > indeed, but could someone explain me what is behind that. I'm worried > > because it may be a drug that google will suddenly stop providing me > > :) > > I get that as well. My theory is that at non-peak times, the Google scheduler > opens up extra instances to be ready for spikes. > > -- > 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 google- > [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.
