Unfortunately, your experience is typical. The current GAE load balancing 'scheduler' seems to be very poorly optimized for lower volume applications.
On Friday, December 21, 2012 1:00:52 AM UTC-5, Kesava Neeli wrote: > > Hi, > > We have been using AppEngine for our production application for over a > year now. We are taking little more trafic from last week. We found the > number of front end instances that are spun do not follow a paatern. Set > min idle instances as 3. We saw 3 resident instances as expected and 6 > dynamic instances. But only 3 dyanmic instances took 99% of the requests. > The other 3 dynamic instances took 10-20 requests in a day. We monitored > the pattern for 3-4 days and we think something is not right.. > > If the requests are load balanced correctly, why 3 dynamic instances don't > serve any requests? We get charged for all FE instances. We stopped the > dynamic instances which were taking very few requests and after few mins we > found new dynamic instance.. Are we missing anything? > > Thanks > Neeli > -- 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/-/v0iQvJGVke8J. 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.
