Hello! I have a python app running on Google App Engine. Since it isn't regulary trafficked, every time a new user visits the site 15 minutes after the last instance was started up (or however long they stay active since the last request), it takes a long time (4-5 seconds) for a new instance to start up and serve the site. Subsequent page requests while the instance is active is around 30ms.
>From what I understand, setting a minimum number of idle instances can alleviate this startup time. So I set the minimum idle instances to 1 in the App Engine dashboard, as well as added inboud_services: - warmup to my app.yaml file. However, there is still a 4-5 second startup time when a new visitor accesses the site. When I checked the "Instances" page on the App Engine dashboard, it showed the resident instance as well as a dynamic instance, but all the requests were going through the dynamic instance. Once I shutdown the dynamic instance, all new requests went through the resident instance, as I expected. BUT, when someone accessed the site after 15 minutes of inactivity (the time it takes for a dynamic instance to shutdown and need to be restarted), the next request went through a new dynamic instance which was spun up, again taking 4-5 seconds, instead of using the resident instance which was already running. I tend to think that this isn't what's supposed to happen. Is there something that I'm doing incorrectly? I really appreciate the help. Thanks! -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
