I suspect that Google can't price up the RAM in use by node. Or at least given http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2009/06/the-limitations-of-google-app-engine/ they can't do fine grained billing based on stack/heap usage.
I think they'd need to be able to do that before allowing us to keep instances up for extended periods of time. - Paul On Jan 18, 2010, at 8:04 AM, Locke wrote: > "The dollar cost of apps being initialized more than they need to has > always concerned me though." > > This is an important observation. Keeping our apps loaded with cron or > other hacks is "discouraged," yet we are billed for far more CPU usage > if we allow appengine to unload/reload our apps every few minutes. > Financially, keeping our apps loaded is actually encouraged. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" 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-java?hl=en.
