Serious issues going on with memcache and repeated function calls

[Richard Cheesmar]

I am having serious issues with shared memcahce in the python standard environment as of today.

Even if I flush the cache, the next time I boot, it should fill the cache key, less than 25MB with data, but it seems it is partially filling.

I have also noticed some weird behaviour with methods being called multiple times.

Any ideas what is going on, this is causing severe website disruption for me.

[Linus Larsen]

Is your app by any chance in europe-west region? There is a thread created today about this, in short we got this answer from Google today:

"There was an issue with elevated error rate for Google App Engine Memcache service for European applications which has been resolved for all affected projects. We will conduct an internal investigation of this issue and make appropriate improvements to our systems to help prevent or minimize future recurrence."

Cheers

/ Linus

[Richard Cheesmar]

Hi, Linus, yes it is, I had some pretty testy issues earlier but it seems ok at the moment, I'll monitor it and see how it goes

Cheers

[George (Cloud Platform Support)]

There are indeed some issues still left in the europe-west region; situation is expected to return to normal soon.