title: Google AppEngine startup times
body: <p>I've already read how to avoid slow ("cold") startup times on AppEngine, and implemented the solution <a href="http://appengine-cookbook.appspot.com/recipe/hot-handler" rel="nofollow">from the cookbook</a> using 10 second polls, but it doesn't seem to help a lot.</p>
  
  <p>I use the Python runtime, and have installed several handlers to handle my requests, none of them doing something particularly time consuming (mostly just a DB fetch).</p>
  
  <p>Although the <strong>Hot Handler</strong> is active, I experience slow load times (up to 15 seconds or more per handler) and the log shows frequently the <code>This request caused a new process to be started for your application, and thus caused your application code to be loaded for the first time ...</code> message after the app was IDLE for a while.</p>
  
  <p>This is very odd. Do I have to fetch each URL separately in the Hot Handler?</p>