It sounds like these are impacting Python developers - I haven't heard any
Java app developers chime in yet.

What's the ballpark of the QPS you guys are doing? <1qps, 10qps, 100qps,
etc?

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On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Eli Jones <[email protected]> wrote:

> Also, a cold start for this task can take as little as 960 ms (where it
> shows the log detail: "This request caused a new process to be started for
> your application...").
>
> And, the task is doing a URLFetch, so.. I'm sure that is taking up a chunk
> of the running time.
>
> One of my imports is pytz (no django or anything like that though).. so
> that could also be of interest.
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Eli Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> My app is in Python.  The only thing it does between 6:30 AM PST and 1:00
>> PM PST is run a single chained task.  The task just runs once every 5
>> minutes.  (There are no other backend processes or users).
>>
>> Yesterday at 11:00 AM PST and 11:02 AM PST, the task experienced the 10
>> second, 500 error (with 0 CPU_MS used).. then the task successfully retried
>> at 11:02:55 AM PST.
>>
>> There was another one (not mentioned in your list of times for yesterday)
>> at 7:45 AM PST.  Failed after 10 seconds with a 500 error and 0 CPU_MS used.
>>  The task successfully retried at 7:47 AM PST (for some reason, the tasks in
>> my app wait 120 seconds for the first retry)
>>
>> For some reason, the log doesn't contain the message that usually goes
>> with this error (there is no detailed log message):
>>
>>  "Request was aborted after waiting too long to attempt to service your
>> request. This may happen sporadically when the App Engine serving cluster is
>> under unexpectedly high or uneven load. If you see this message frequently,
>> please contact the App Engine team."
>>
>> But, it has the exact same fingerprint. (It just seems that the logs are
>> trimming the detailed messages faster than usual.)
>>
>> This chained task runs 79 times each day (this would be 82 requests
>> counting these 3 errors).. so these errors accounted for 3.66 % of the
>> requests during the day yesterday.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Ikai Lan (Google) <
>> [email protected] <ikai.l%[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey guys,
>>>
>>> We've been tracking latency spikes and intermittent batches of aborted
>>> requests over the last 24 hour period. There were at least 3 periods of
>>> spikes yesterday:
>>>
>>> ~1100 Pacific (moderate, brief period of high)
>>> ~1300 Pacific (small)
>>> ~1530 Pacific (small)
>>>
>>> Community reports seem to indicate that these are related to loading
>>> requests. If you are being affected, can you report your environment,
>>> language and if these times correlate with your experiences in this thread?
>>> Are there periods that this particular report did not cover? Please provide
>>> measurements, times and application IDs.
>>>
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