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Shmuel
Shmuel

Reputation: 3916

Google App Engine - Cron Keep-Alive Limitation

I'm using gae for a project and I have a cron script to keep it alive so that the handful of users I have so far wont have to wait +5 sec on their first query.

Does anyone know if Google will enforce some limit on my app if the logs reflect that there are significantly more hits from the cron script than actuall users?

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 687

Answers (3)

Ashvin Singh
Ashvin Singh

Reputation: 39

so far google has no such criteria but better option is enable billing with automatic scaling it really helped me to pace my site's speed.

if you are really worried on pace increase min idle instance and decrease pending latencies you can find them on your dashboard if your app has billing enabled.

Upvotes: 1

Rob Curtis
Rob Curtis

Reputation: 2265

I don't know if Google would enforce a limit or not.

Instead of using a cron job, you can set the min idle instances to 1(or more) if you're worried about response time. Enable billing to do this.

Upvotes: 1

Romin
Romin

Reputation: 8816

To address the wait time that you are facing, App Engine has a feature called Warmup requests. Warmup requests are a specific type of loading request and their task is to load the application initialisation code into an instance in advance before the standard requests from your users hit the application.

Please look at Warmup Requests documentation and a tutorial.

Upvotes: 2

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