Google AppEngine Indexing Delay

Question

Am trying to deploy a app to Google AppEngine. But the DataStore index building seems to take forever. The contents of my index.yaml

indexes:

# AUTOGENERATED

# This index.yaml is automatically updated whenever the dev_appserver
# detects that a new type of query is run.  If you want to manage the
# index.yaml file manually, remove the above marker line (the line
# saying "# AUTOGENERATED").  If you want to manage some indexes
# manually, move them above the marker line.  The index.yaml file is
# automatically uploaded to the admin console when you next deploy
# your application using appcfg.py.

- kind: comments
  properties:
  - name: content_type_id
  - name: is_public
  - name: is_removed
  - name: object_pk
  - name: site_id
  - name: created

- kind: comments
  properties:
  - name: content_type_id
  - name: object_pk
  - name: user_email
  - name: user_name
  - name: user_url
  - name: created

- kind: content_type
  properties:
  - name: app_label
  - name: name

- kind: pages
  properties:
  - name: post_status
  - name: created

- kind: pages
  properties:
  - name: post_status
  - name: post_title

- kind: posts
  properties:
  - name: post_status
  - name: created

- kind: posts
  properties:
  - name: post_status
  - name: created
    direction: desc

Any idea on how to speed up the process?

Answer 1

The only thing you can do to speed up indexing is to create indexes when you have less data - though this will impose additional overhead on inserts. Other than that, you have to leave it up to the automated system to build the indexes as fast as it can.