I'm having similar issues these days. It looks like performance got worst, or even more unpredictable.
Too bad :( 2010/3/10 Nacho Coloma <[email protected]> > Actually this is the one and single thing that makes my GAE experience > kind of bittersweet. I am still recommending the platform to friends > and colleagues, but mentioning the cold start problem up front. > > Setting this "feature/bug" to high priority would be most welcome. I > think this is the most followed issue in GAE ever. > > On Mar 10, 12:48 pm, Jorge <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is silly, but yesterday night it worked! > > > > My app runs a cron job everyday at 2am my time (8:00 GMT). Often the > > job fails because of a timeout. You know, those timeouts one gets > > because the virtual server won't start. > > > > Then I tried this silly solution. I run 5 dummy jobs 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 > > minutes before the real one. > > > > Very funny, but yesterday night the 5 dummy jobs failed. Nevertheless, > > the real cron job started and ran OK!!! > > > > Come on, Google! This timeout problem has taken way too long to be > > solved. We were planning on going live with out app next Quarter. Now > > we are evaluating alternatives to move to another platform. We have > > spent over 6 months working on GAE and it looks like a wasted effort. > > > > /cronjob/DummyJob > > GAE warm up before recording charges for overdue payments @ 08:00 GMT > > every day 07:55 (UTC) > > 2010-03-10 07:55:02 on time Failed > > /cronjob/DummyJob > > GAE warm up before recording charges for overdue payments @ 08:00 GMT > > every day 07:56 (UTC) > > 2010-03-10 07:56:02 2 secs late Failed > > /cronjob/DummyJob > > GAE warm up before recording charges for overdue payments @ 08:00 GMT > > every day 07:57 (UTC) > > 2010-03-10 07:57:01 on time Failed > > /cronjob/DummyJob > > GAE warm up before recording charges for overdue payments @ 08:00 GMT > > every day 07:58 (UTC) > > 2010-03-10 07:58:01 on time Failed > > /cronjob/DummyJob > > GAE warm up before recording charges for overdue payments @ 08:00 GMT > > every day 07:59 (UTC) > > 2010-03-10 07:59:01 on time Failed > > /cronjob/PaymentsOverdueCharge > > Record charges for overdue payments @ 08:00 GMT every day 08:00 > (UTC) > > 2010-03-10 08:00:01 on time Success > > > > Jorge Gonzalez > > -- > 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]<google-appengine-java%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en. > > -- 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.
