What is meant by 'bucket-size' of queue in the google app engine?
Google app engine task queues have configuration as (example) <queue> <name>mail-queue</name> <rate>5/m</rate> <bucket-size>10</bucket-size> </queue> Here, what does the 'bucket-size' mean? I could not find a comprehensive documentation about this in google app engine documentation. Does specifying this as 10 means that if 100 tasks are queued at an instant only 10 of those will be put in the queue and rest will be ignored? bucket-size is perfectly described here : Limits the burstiness of the queue's processing, i.e. a higher bucket size allows bigger spikes in the queue's execution rate. For