I think we've tracked the bug down. We are currently treating Always-On as if it is 3 min idle instances. When you try to set Max Idle instances to less than 3 (which wouldn't make much sense if you had known you had set min idle instances to 3), the Admin Console doesn't let you and (unfortunately) doesn't give a good error as to why. So, you can set it to 3, but as long as Always-On is still on it won't let you set it to less than that.
We'll see if we can figure out a way around this... Sorry about that! Greg On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Rori Stumpf <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Greg, > > I'm somewhat pleased to hear it's a bug :-) > I've posted the info you requested, let me know if you need anything > else. > > Thanks, > Rori > > On Sep 6, 10:53 pm, "Gregory D'alesandre" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Rori, > > > > We haven't be able to reproduce the problem, would you be willing to go > to > > this issue to fill in your browser information and the user you were > using > > to try to do this: > http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5751 > > > > Thanks! > > > > Greg > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Rori Stumpf <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > That's how I *thought* it would work too, by when trying to change > > > "Max Idle Instances" to 1 or 2, the setting does not stick - it is > > > flipped back to "automatic" after clicking the save button. So "always > > > on" would cost at least $1411yr. I probably have to switch to a more > > > responsive platform. > > > > > On Sep 6, 7:37 pm, Barry Hunter <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > One thing to realise about the before and after 'prediction', it just > > > > shows what the cost would be at the current settings. > > > > > > With a few simple tweaks to the settings for the application, you can > > > > probably reduce the price substantially. > > > > > >http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/managing-resources.html > > > > > > (eg, 'always on' means you have 3 instances always running. With the > > > > settings you can bring it down so that there are only instances being > > > > spun up to serve requests. Can make it so there is still an instance > > > > ready to serve request - ie one instance 'always on' - which would be > > > > your free instance. Then when you have spikes of traffic, you would > > > > pay for extra instances. These might well fit in the $9 month minimum > > > > spend anyway. ) > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > > "Google App Engine" 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?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" 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?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" 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?hl=en.
