Wow, an increase from 10 to 400?  Can I ask what your scheduler settings
are, if only to learn how to prevent my app from running into this scenario?

On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 2:43 PM, smwatch <[email protected]> wrote:

> We are seeing this problem too, our regular instance are 6-10 and they
> were at 300-400
>
> Our code is now disabled, it was using memcache, but we have no fix
> for it so far, no change in code or traffic.
>
> See this thread.
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/thread/29515fdc51f80b32#
>
> On Dec 8, 11:13 am, Rishi Arora <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'm seeing this too, but for me this has turned out to be a good thing.
>  I
> > have my Max-Idle-Instances fixed at one.  But I thought my issue was more
> > because I lowered my Max-Pending-Latency from 5 seconds down to 1 second,
> > and then further down to 50ms.  In terms of impact on resource-usage, I
> > have only seen my overall instance-hours used per-day go from ~27 (under
> > the free amount of 28), to about 30.  To me, a cost increase of $0.16 is
> a
> > small price to pay for a really low max-pending-latency of 50ms.  The
> user
> > experience has been a lot better since then.
> >
> > For your case, keep in mind that QPS is only averaged over the last
> minute
> > - so it may not be a good indication for overall load demanded of your
> > instances.  I do feel that there was a change in GAE's instance
> scheduler,
> > but I would recommend tweaking the scheduler settings  - more
> importantly,
> > you may need to lower your Max-Idle-Instances, so that an increase in
> > active-instance-count (in response to spike in incoming requests) doesn't
> > have a huge impact to your cost.  Also, correspondingly, if you're
> reducing
> > max-idle-instances, you may also need to reduce your max-pending-latency
> so
> > that instances are spawned sooner to serve your incoming load.  Do you
> have
> > a sense for how long your instance start up time is?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Clément <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > > I'm experiencing a very high and unusual instance count on one of my
> apps
> > > since this morning.
> >
> > > I have about 10 instances usually, but today it's stuck between 40 and
> 50.
> >
> > > There is no code change since yesterday, and the load is about the
> same as
> > > every day.
> >
> > > The average QPS is extremely low (below 0.1), and the latency is also
> > > quite low (below 500ms), so it doesn't make any sense.
> >
> > > I've almost exhausted my quota for today because of this issue.
> >
> > > Has something changed in the instance scheduler since yesteday ?
> >
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