DataStore Lagging?

[Prateek Malhotra]

Hey,

I've been working on my site for the past few months and my database,
although a little larger than most (a little over 2000 entires) seems
to be getting slower.

For instance, if you go to my application (brandclash), you will see
that on the left you can click on any of the categories and the
profile load on the right. every category used to work. As of late,
however, some of the larger categories (which at most have 300
accounts) such as musicians comes back with the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/base/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/
__init__.py", line 499, in __call__

handler.get(*groups)

File "/base/data/home/apps/brandclash/1.111/ajax.py", line 80, in
get

for affiliate in affiliates:

File "/base/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/db/
__init__.py", line 1389, in next

return self.__model_class.from_entity(self.__iterator.next())

File "/base/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/api/
datastore.py", line 1230, in next

self.__buffer = self._Next(self._BUFFER_SIZE)

File "/base/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/api/
datastore.py", line 1219, in _Next

raise _ToDatastoreError(err)

File "/base/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/api/
datastore.py", line 1619, in _ToDatastoreEr

ror

raise errors[err.application_error](err.error_detail)

Timeout: datastore timeout: operation took too long.

I'm not sure why this is happening all of the sudden now, but is any
body else experiencing these kinds of issues?

[Prateek Malhotra]

From this site: http://www.cloudstatus.com/

I see that the read times have almost doubled this past week!!

Is the Google Team aware of this?

-Prateek

[Jeff S (Google)]

Hi all,

Our servers are currently undergoing some routine maintenance, and
requests have moved around to a different set of servers. You may
notice some increase in datastore latency until Tuesday 9/2 at 5pm PDT
(GMT-7).  The increase is not severe, and we're keeping an eye on
things to make sure that app serving continues smoothly.

Jeff

[Larry....@googlemail.com]

That's good to know.

I've noticed this too but as I've been adding feature after feature to
my application recently I wondered if it was feature-bloat. I even
went to the trouble of optimizing some slow parts recovering some of
the lost performance. The site should be amazingly fast when the
maintenance is finished as even now it is blazing! :)