Not sure if you have tried the following. If it is a low traffic app, run a cron ( eg. Pingdom ), every 5/10 mins. Make your idle instance setting say Auto - 1 or 2. Pending latency relatively high ( say 7 seconds so that low pending latency does not cause new instance restarts). With multi threading, this almost always ensure that you get a always on instance with users 'rarely' facing cold instances ( we have seen it with data ). In fact, having a low traffic works to your advantage.
The problem really happens when you get bursty traffic. This is when the cold instance issue starts to hit you. Randomly some unfortunate users start getting 20 second delays. I wish Google takes this seriously and fixes the issue which has been around for so long. Thanks Prashant On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 3:55 PM, gafal <[email protected]> wrote: > After months of complaining about user-facin**g loading requests, I'm > burned. I'm quitting. > > I'm sad about it. I really enjoyed GAE beside this Critical issue (yes, > this is critical to my customers, so its critical to me and should be > critical to you). > I don't think Google would accept to have it's search engine displaying > results after 20 to 25 seconds to some customers because they reach a cold > instance :-) > Why would we? Why did you leave us in that situation? > > No solution or workaround has ever been provided. We just saw the GAE > development team sticking to its position :-( > Maybe because the scheduler is performing as designed? Customers are not > satisfied so please, redesign it. > > There 's a lot of work awaiting me to get out of GAE framework since I've > been using a lot of the provided services. > I'm really angry about that. That's a lesson hardly learned: avoid > provider locking* even with Google*. > > It was too good to be true. > > Gael > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
