Hi Jeff,

Ah I see, thanks for the details. I'm looking into this, would you
mind sharing which runtime you are using, and the app ID?

Cheers,

Jeff

On Aug 31, 1:52 pm, Jeff Enderwick <[email protected]> wrote:
> thanks - I expected that the api calls would use parallel processing,
> but the app/servelet itself is a single thread of execution.
> if I have api_cpu_ms of 74, and cpu_ms of 1500, then that gives 1426ms
> for the non-api (app/servelet usage), yes?
> I'm trying to grok how that would happen in a single thread in 965ms
> of wall-clock time.
>
> Jeff
>
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Jeff S (Google)<[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi Jeff
>
> > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Jeff Enderwick <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
>
> >> Trolling my logs, I'm coming across cases where there is extreme
> >> (~10x) variance in cpu_ms for the exact same code flow, same GET URL
> >> and same data (not even any intervening writes to the datastore). I am
> >> logging my db.* function accesses, and I have factored out memcache
> >> too. For example:
>
> >> 92ms, 142cpu_ms, 74api_cpu_ms, followed by:
> >> 965ms, 1500cpu_ms, 74api_cpu_ms
>
> >> Q1: what could cause such a whopping delta? I am using Django, so
> >> perhaps template compilation? I used cprofile on the SDK with a
> >> similar data/result set, and the first page served was maybe ~2x
> >> subsequent pages in total time. Thoughts?
>
> > Your idea of template compilation is along the same lines as my thinking. I
> > can't say difinitively for this case but I would guess that you might be
> > seeing a more expensive first request when a new instance of you app is
> > being spun up.
>
> >> Q2: I am assuming the 1st number after the '200' is the wall-clock
> >> time-to-server. As the app is single threaded ... how is it able to
> >> burn 1500ms less 74ms in only 965ms?
>
> > Most API calls make calls to distributed services which parallelize work
> > across multiple machines, so it often easy to use more CPU time than wall
> > clock time. If you want to see where the CPU usage is coming from, you can
> > get information about CPU quota levels at any point within your code as
> > documented here:
>
> >http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/quotas.html#Monitoring_CPU_Usag...
>
> > Thank you,
>
> > Jeff
>
> >> Thanks!
>
>
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