My Apps are all in production mode. I would gladly pay for Heroku to run at least one instance of each app all the time :)
On Jan 8, 7:45 am, "Paul Clegg" <[email protected]> wrote: > I think this is a result of the virtual machine design Heroku is using. One > of the ideas behind cloud computing is that your servers don't exist until > needed. So if your server hasn't been used in an hour, all its resources > are removed from use. That first request, then, takes some extra time as > the virtual instance is re-allocated, the code is started, and so forth. > I've noticed it on my apps, too. > > Admittedly, such a long latency for that first request is pretty bad, but I > can't blame them for "turning my app off" if nobody's used it in an hour. > > Also, is your app running in "development mode" or in "production mode"? I > wonder if that might make a slight improvement... > > ...Paul > > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Matthew Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > Some of my apps are seeing occasionally horrible performance - a > > greater-than 10 second response time - even for static files like > > index.html. > > > From purely anecdotal experience, it seems like this is happening when > > the app hasn't been contacted for a few hours, and then on the first > > request after this dormancy, it will take a long time to start. The > > second request will go much faster. > > > Since I rely on these apps having a < 10s response time (which is > > fairly reasonable for 2 SQL queries per request) because I contact > > them via API, I was wondering if you guys had any advise. > > > I could obviously just keep pinging my apps every hour, but this seems > > like a hack. Do you have any other recommendations to prevent them > > from having what seems like a "startup" time? > > > Thanks in advance! > > Matt --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" 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/heroku?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
