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"A cron job will invoke a URL at a given time of day. A URL invoked by cron is subject to the same limits and quotas as a normal HTTP request, including the req
by jye 18y ago
"A cron job will invoke a URL at a given time of day. A URL invoked by cron is subject to the same limits and quotas as a normal HTTP request, including the request time limit."
So you can't do cron tasks which last more than 30 seconds. Too bad.
I'm looking foward to "Offline processing on App Engine: a look ahead" presentation during the Google I/O (http://code.google.com/intl/en-US/events/io/sessions.html http://code.google.com/intl/en-US/events/io/sessions.html).
- jaxn 18y agoI have a cron job set to run once a minute (which I am impressed they allow). Also, I am currently using the remote-api to create tasks that I run on my laptop or another server. I imagine the offline processing is pretty similar.
- abii 18y agoThanks for noticing this. The request time limit does suck.
- tomjen 18y agoThat is indeed pretty stupid, but on the other hand you can set up a task that runs often and then split the time consuming task into several smaller tasks and then only execute on task at a time.