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> The trend is to have applications use less memory. On bare metal an application used all memory, a virtual machine has the OS overhead per application, on a c
by dangoor 8y ago
> The trend is to have applications use less memory. On bare metal an application used all memory, a virtual machine has the OS overhead per application, on a container an application uses just one process, and with serverless even the processes can be reused.
Processes on App Engine are reused between requests. We cache some things in instance memory.
- sytse 8y agoI think what I meant to say is the processes are reused for different applications. I assume that on AppEngine one process is used only for one application (like our application servers on GitLab.com).
- dangoor 8y agoAhh! Yes, each App Engine app lives in its own container & process. App Engine Standard further sandboxes things (you can't use arbitrary C modules from your Python code, for example).