In the mean time, here are some ideas for reducing startup times by shrinking our apps. I went from 8.1s to 2.5s mainly by eliminating Guice, and I would expect similar results with Spring. I can definitely live with 2.5s...
http://turbomanage.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/appengine-cold-starts-considered/ /dmc On Mar 30, 3:04 pm, Baz <[email protected]> wrote: > Great information, Ikai. > > I really feel that "instances" should be completely avoided in concept and > language on the GAE. What if the feature was simply an enable/disable deal > called "Warm Scale". If it were enabled, then your *next* instance would > always be warm, regardless of how many instances you already had. This would > be most noticeable and suitable for low QPS production apps that are > constantly going from 0 to 1 instances (as you mentioned), but it could > still be important for others, say, for a super-high-profile site, or a > situation where your QPS is right at the threshold of instances and > oscillating back and forth between two instances. Whatever the situation, if > the solution were generalized like that, and most importantly not tied to a > SPECIFIC NUMBER of instances, it would be up to the user to decide how > important it was for them and whether to enable it. > > Cheers, > Baz -- 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.
