GAE Go - “This request caused a new process to be started for your application…”

Question

I\'ve encountered this problem for a second time now, and I\'m wondering if there is any solution to this. I\'m running an application on Google App Engine that relies on fr

Answer 1

You can read about GAE instances in their documentation here, check out the performance section:

http://code.google.com/appengine/kb/java.html

In your case of having small data available, if its static then you can load it into memory on startup of a new instance. If it's dynamic data, you should be saving it to the database using their api.

My recommendation for keeping a GAE instance alive, either pay for the Always-On service or follow my recommendations for using a cron here:

http://rwyland.blogspot.com/2012/02/keeping-google-app-engine-gae-instances.html

I use what I call a "prime schedule" of a 3, 7, 11 minute cron job.